BEVERLY HILLS, July 03, (THEWILL) – The Nasarawa State Governor, Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, has advocated the abolition of one chamber of the National Assembly, stressing that there was no need for the combined existence of both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
He made this call at the Government House in Lafia on Monday, when he received members of the Ahmadu Bello University Alumni Association led by its National President, Prof. Ahmed Tijani Mural.
Al-Makura said, “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.”
In addition to proposing the scrapping of one of the chambers of the federal parliament, he called for a reduction in the number of courts such as Area and Magistrates courts in the country to save cost.
The governor went on to dismiss the clamour for restructuring of Nigeria, which has in recent times received a groundswell of support and endorsement from eminent Nigerians.
He pointed out that what the country needed was a 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.”
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