chamber2:


[size=14pt]He said as part of the restructuring of the country, the nation should consider and implement the policy of having a single term of not less than 5 years and not more than 6 years for elected political office holders so that the struggle for power which had been accompanied by a lot of waste of resources and acrimonies would be removed.

Most executives, he said, are more audacious in their second term than in their first term.

Similarly, Soludo said he did not see what the country was doing with two chambers of the National Assembly, adding that only one arm with not more than 150 law makers would serve the needs of the country. He also said the country did not need more than 15 ministers at the federal level.

According to him, it costs more to maintain the National Assembly as presently composed than what half of the countries in Africa would need to carry out their day-to-day functions[/size].

Sun of god:

Soludo is only stating the obvious - Bureaucracy is costly.

However, by restructuring he should focus more on what structure will be most beneficial to the growth and prosperity of Nigeria and its citizens.

jerseyboy:

Not too obvious to majority of our country men and women. Creation of new states is the priority of David Mark for the new senate.

ola olabiy:

Restructure - - re-formulate policies as much as you like.

If we don't tackle corruption and nepotism, it is a futile exercise.


^^And, we can't tackle both.

NL, This is critical FRONT PAGE matterial.

s there something he's saying that we don't know already?  puhlleaase!!!

I think Soludo is seeking relevance again from the wilderness. I hope Sanusi would send out one of his scud missels sometime this week reminding Nigerians how bad Soludo was a CBN Governor.

And where exactly does that take us?

Ikengawo:

i like how these men are ready to speak on what nigeria needs when they're out of power and relevance but when they're in any semblance of power they just want to go to meetings and drive around acting like 'big men'.

though soludo wasn't in the government he was hardly the philosopher king he's trying to paint himself as right now

‘Towards the Economic Transformation and Viability of Nigerian States, can we break the Oil Resource Curse?’

Soludo also called for the devolution of powers to the states in order to exploit mineral resources that abound in those areas with the aim of paying taxes to the federal government in line with true federalism.

He said that the federating units must become truly viable for the economic transformation agenda to strive and suggested the scrapping of states and evolution of six regions, to reduce overhead cost of governanance.
"If the National Assembly is to go ahead with the planned creation of more states, it must include a provision that such new state would operate for five years without funding to determine its viability," he said.