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Things Will Get Worse Without Restructuring, Says Ndoma-Egba

November 07, (THEWILL) – A former Senate leader and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN), has lent his voice to the call for restructuring.

Speaking in Calabar, capital of Cross River State, on Friday, Ndoma-Egba said that things will get worse in the country if calls for restructuring are not heeded.

“Things will only get worse if we insist on retaining the current structure.

We have to go back to the drawing board. We must restructure one way or the other,” he said.

On the modalities for restructuring, the legal luminary said a national consensus has to be reached.

“For any amendment to pass a near national consensus must have been reached. The Constitution does not provide how that consensus can be reached.

Therefore, the process of arriving at that consensus has to be outside the constitution.

“It will require any national conversation, which may as well be beyond the structure of the country, but also its vision and destination. It has to be a conversation that will involve everyone more so as the powers of the National Assembly to amend the constitution are severely circumscribed,” he said.

Stressing that the current federal structure is no longer workable, the former Senate leader noted that the centre had become overburdened and unwieldy, with more than 70 percent of the federal expenditure going to recurrent expenditure and less than 30 percent reserved for capital expenditure.

He also said that Nigeria had reached the point of structural implosion, as the economy lost its productive capacity.

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THEWILL Correspondent, Aniekan Bassey has over six years experience that spans across several fields in print journalism including development communication, sexual reproductive and health rights issues, crime, climate change, social justice, business and human interest stories.

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