Let’s scrap Senate or House of Reps –Al-Makura
— 4th July 2017
From Linus Oota, Lafia and Tony John, Port Harcourt

Nasarawa State Governor, Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, has called for the scrapping of one of the chambers of the National Assembly.

Governor Almakura 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.

However, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) insisted that restructuring which would give rise to fiscal federalism was the antidote to the plethora of issues troubling the nation.

MOSOP President, Legborsi Pyagbara, who spoke, yesterday, in Port Harcourt, warned that failure to address the lingering agitations across the country could plunge the nation into unavoidable consequences.

He said though MOSOP had condemned the quit notice issued by Arewa youths to South-Easterners living in the North and Biafran calls for secession, there was need to restructure the country as well as reconsider the issue of resource ownership.

“Several issues are currently buffeting the Nigeria-nation state and require immediate response for Nigeria to avert descent into anarchy and disintegration.

“MOSOP has been concerned about recent events in the country which have the ominous potential of triggering national disintegration if not speedily addressed. First, is the issue of resurgent Biafra separatism and second, a counter Arewa intolerance expressed in the ultimatum to all Igbo to leave the North.



“MOSOP categorically and irrevocably rejects the two extremes, none of which will improve the miserable condition of the people who the antagonists are claiming to represent.

“Most countries of the world finding themselves in similar situations like us have had to look inwards and search for solutions that are adaptable to their environments and meet the needs of the various centrifugal forces that make up the country.

“For the Nigerian state to survive, it must be seen to demonstrate equity, justice and fairness by creating political space for the sub-national entities to develop at their own space, while ensuring protection for national minorities and indigenous communities.

“The Ogoni Bill of Rights, which is the basis of the Ogoni struggle, emphasises local autonomy for the Ogoni people and other Nigerian communities that are threatened by internal colonialism,” Pyagbara stated.

On East-West road, the group declared: “MOSOP totally condemns the neglect of East-West road, especially Akpajo Eleme axis, which, of course, is now impassable. This is condemnable and unacceptable.


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Then if this how restructuring will look like

Then we need it urgently

Good!!!! .Then let's go there.Abokis seems to be getting some senses these days or is it the fear of restructuring frenzy? Good radiance to bad rubbish.Our senathieves what say ya? Nigeria must restructure or disintegrates.

sarrki:
Then if this how restructuring will look like

Then we need it urgently

You talking "restructuring"with your patriotic zeal in an infallible Buhari? Thought anything in Comrade Buhari's government is always right? For your info-restructuring means going back to regionalism where much power is devolved away from the centre wherein each region enhances it's economic development by harnessing it available resources while contributing a token to the centre.

Dis idiot clamoring for scraping of senate or house of rep....make 2018 reach na him go first print poster for senatorial campaign...dat one no mean say him no go collect huge allowee or bribe to get juicy posts abi pad budget

Paperwhite:
You talking "restructuring"with your patriotic zeal in an infallible Buhari? Thought anything in Comrade Buhari's government is always right? For your info-restructuring means going back to regionalism where much power is devolved away from the centre wherein each region enhances it's economic development by harnessing it available resources while contributing a token to the centre.

Bro,

I am a patriot

Having said that , I will support restructuring only if we have a new crop of leaders

What we have now will not lay the foundation well
By 2019 when we might have purged all this criminals brandishing as politician away.

Sharming95:
Dis idiot clamoring for scraping of senate or house of rep....make 2018 reach na him go first print poster for senatorial campaign...dat one no mean say him no go collect huge allowee or bribe to get juicy posts abi pad budget

Bro

Nigerians are wiser now

His likes won't be elected then

No lets restructure first. After expunging Christian from the constitution and building mosque with infidel oil money they want to keeptheir distraction game up.

sarrki:


Bro,

I am a patriot

Having said that , I will support restructuring only if we have a new crop of leaders

What we have now will not lay the foundation well
By 2019 when we might have purged all this criminals brandishing as politician away.

That is if Nigeria still exists by then.Goodluck to us all.

Paperwhite:
That is if Nigeria still exists by then.Goodluck to us all.

Guy, Nigeria will still exist and indeed more united, even if your biafla has successfully exited. That you want to go out doesn't mean the rest of us aren't interest in our Nigeria, pls just pack and leave, we will reorganise ourselves.

“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.

How exactly does having 774 representatives, as against the current 469 reduce the cost? What do they serve in lafia govt house?


He equally dismissed the clamour for restructuring, which lately, has received a groundswell of support and endorsement across the country.
“Creating more states now that the Federal Government cannot even fund the existing ones, to me, is unnecessary."

The problem with these people is they see the fg as their source of livelihood when it ought to be the other way round, every govt is supposed to be constantly searching for ways to create meaningful jobs and increase its IGR from which it pays civil servants and tax to the center, but this clown is only giving his pathetic excuse of being a parasite. What if we never had crude oil? What then would he say?

Let's scrap States!

I agree, lets scrap legislature because they are incompetent and a waste of funds, but we need to scrap states, and at the end of the day Ni.gger Area so that Britain and the world would know we are not local black slaves

A Set Of People

noted

True!
The cost of running this Govt is damn too much and still we getting nothing in return. The call to scrap the Senate or Rep just confirmed their futility. They are bunch of dumb heads who go about sleeping with women and yet we still pay them heavily.

Al-Makura too is another hypocrite but he's saying the truth. Very soon their cup will runover and Nigerians will reject them.

100% Restructuring
Atiku2019