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Cost of governance: Aisha Yesufu wants Senate scrapped

Nathaniel Irobi by Nathaniel Irobi
June 9, 2024
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Cost of governance: Aisha Yesufu wants Senate scrapped

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A renowned political and civil rights activist, Aisha Yesufu has called for the  scrapping of the Nigerian Senate to reduce cost of governance.

Yesufu,Co-founder, Bring Back Our Girls Movement, made the call  in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos.

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She was reacting to calls in some quarters that the country should jettison bicameral legislature(two-chamber National Assembly) and adopt unicameral legislature to reduce cost of governance.

NAN reports that unicameral legislature is a system with one chamber or house, as opposed to  bicameral legislature which has two chambers(Senate and House of Representatives).

Some countries with unicameral legislatures include:- China (National People’s Congress) Sweden (Riksdag) Norway (Storting) Denmark (Folketing)and Portugal (Assembly of the Republic).

The activist said could ,alternatively,consider  re-introduction of the  parliamentary system of government to reduce the heavy funds spent on the National Assembly.

According to her, until something is done about  the cost of running government and corruption, Nigerians would not feel the dividends of democracy.

“We need to really and critically examine our democracy and look at what fits us and serve the ordinary people and the masses. The one that will not be too expensive.

“What we have now is too expensive. We need to cut cost and not just continue what what we have that has not been working for Nigerians.

“I totally support the call for us to have a unicameral legislature and scrapping of Senate, it is very important because the kind of governance that we are practising is very expensive.

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“As a country, we really don’t have that kind of money. Apart from this, the fact is that both Senate and House of Representatives end up duplicating functions in terms of what they do,” Yesufu said.

She said the Senate had been turned into ” a retirement home for a lot of incompetent and failed governors who didn’t do anywhere well for the people in their state.”

She said that Nigerians had continued to bear the burnt of the resources annually allocated to these political ‘retirees’ in the Senate.

Yesufu added: “It (Senate) is a joke ground, we cannot say what Senate does is in a really sense different from what the House of Representatives do.

“They (Senators) do nothing special and at the end of the day, they are paid humongous amount of our money and such huge allowances for doing nothing different.

“We found out that a good number of them, especially those that are former governors, while they get this humongous salary, they are as well collecting pension from their respective states.

“There is no way democracy can work for the masses  with this kind of waste of public funds that could have been directed to put happiness to the face of the common man.”

According to her, Senegal is practising a unicameral legislature, after abolishing Senate for the second time in September 2012.

She said : “The House of Representatives is enough for it to be able to take care of the law making aspect of the nation, oversights and other things that the legislative arm of government does.

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“Unicameral legislature should be adopted in Nigeria because bicameralism is too expensive apart from the fact that it slows down business of lawmaking.

“It is not working for us, we don’t have the kind of money to run it and maintain this, especially at a time the masses are suffering.

“Having a single legislative arm will pay us better in terms of reduction of cost of governance,” she said.

Yesufu decried that Nigeria had not in real sense been practising true federal system of government.

Speaking further, the activist said the country could also adopt the parliamentary system of government to also reduce cost to governance.

She said that Nigeria could not longer sustain the current presidential system of government.

“This will also pay us in terms of reduction of the cost of governance because whoever is leading the country is the one that is the first among equal.

“Ministers in this system are selected from members of the parliament that are elected.

“So, that reduces the cost of governance drastically and better than what we have now where separate people are brought in as ministers,” she said.

The activist said that both bicameral legislature and presidential system of government had brought a lot of pressure on the nation resources.

“We can have a parliamentary system of government, we shall be reducing cost of governance drastically well.

“The Prime Minister would not be this powerful and exercise control over everything ,including the appointed ministers, because ministers are also members of the parliament,” she said.

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