Last week, it was reported that Senate President Bukola Saraki called in representatives of Facebook to teach the 109 elected senators how to properly use the social media application.
The workshop was aimed at properly educating the senators on the use of social media for good governance and public policy implementation.
According to Punch Newspaper, less than 10 per cent of the senate attended the workshop. The attendees were all from the senate president’s office.
Only 25 out of about 500 senators’ aides actually turned up for the programme.
Senator Isa Galaudu, Chief of Staff to the Senate President had earlier stated that the training was in accordance with Saraki’s promise to bring about a more representative legislature through the use of technology and e-parliamentary tools.
The training which was conducted by the Head of Policy at Facebook Africa and members of her team was a free service.