Nasarawa State Governor, Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, has called for the scrapping of one of the chambers of the National Assembly.
Governor Al-Makura who stated this, yesterday, at the Government House, Lafia, when he received members of the Ahmadu Bello University Alumni Association led by its National President, Prof. Ahmed Tijani Mural, said there was no need for the combined existence of both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
“If Nigerians are going for Senate, then the House of Representatives should be abolished, but if they are going for House of Representatives, the Senate should be scrapped. But for me, I suggest that each of the 744 local government in the country should have a House of Representatives member to cut cost,” he declared.
He equally dismissed the clamour for restructuring, which lately, has received a groundswell of support and endorsement across the country, saying what the nation needed was total reorganisation of the three arms of government in order to add value to the system.
According to him, “restructuring means different things to different people; I think restructuring will complicate the whole system. Rather, we should look at how to refine and add value to the system.
“Creating more states now that the Federal Government cannot even fund the existing ones, to me, is unnecessary. We should look at the three arms of government by way of tinkering with them.”
In addition to the abolition of one arm of the National Assembly, Al-Makura also advocated the reduction of the number of courts such as Area and Magistrates courts in the country to cut cost. – The Sun.
