Scrap Senate to save cost of governance – NGF Chairman
POLITICS DIGEST – The Ekiti State Governor and Chairman Nigerian Governors Forum, Kayode Fayemi, has advocated the scrapping of the Senate in order to save cost and reduce financial burden on the government.
He also advocated for the adoption of Stephen Orosaye report which recommended the merging of federal government’s agencies that perform similar functions in order to save the country’s resources and ensure effectiveness.
Mr Fayemi spoke at one of the panel sessions on the sidelines of the 25th edition of the Nigerian Economic Summit with the theme, ‘Nigeria 2050: Shifting gears,’ as reported by the Punch.
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Mr Fayemi said the type of legislative system that would be more productive for Nigeria in this current economic situation “is a unicameral legislature.”
Recall last week that Rochas Okorocha, a senator representing Imo West Senatorial District, expressed a similar idea.
Mr Okorocha lamented the cost of running the Senate and suggested the reduction in number of senators in each state to one so as to save cost.
As it stands, the country’s legislative arm consisting of 109 Senate members and a 360-member House of Representatives, on yearly basis gulps millions of naira.
In the recently presented 2020 Budget proposals, N125 billion has been set aside for the National Assembly.
Governor Fayemi in his argument said, “We do need to look at the size of government in Nigeria and I am an advocate of a unicameral legislature. What we really need is the House of Representatives, because that is what represents.
