Senator Rochas Anayo Okorocha has canvassed for the reduction of Parliamentarians representing each state of the federation , saying the nation cannot afford their expenditure anymore .

Okorocha , a former Governor representing Imo West Senatorial District , stated this while contributing to a Committee report on MTEF at the Senate Thursday ’s plenary .

He faulted the bicameral legislature, saying that there was nothing too sacrosanct that Senators and House of Representatives members were doing that only senators could not do .

In his reaction to the 2019 budget deficit , which was revealed by the Committee report on Budget and National Planning , the former Governor said , government was expending too much funds on lawmakers .

“ Mr . President of the Senate , distinguished colleagues, let ’s tell ourselves the truth . Look at the number of House of Representatives members and Senators. ”
“ To me, what is too important that a House member is doing that a Senator from the same state is not doing ?”

“ It is time for us to sacrifice and I want to say that a Senator is enough to represent a State in order to cut cost . We must do sacrifice for the nation.”
Okorocha added that government should spend more money on production that would yield revenue for the country rather than capital expenditures .

Reacting, Senate President , Dr Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan said , the Constitution provided for the practice of bicameral legislature, saying Okorocha was at liberty to sponsor a bill recommending one Parliament .

Senate President explained that the existence of upper and lower legislative Chambers was to enable lawmakers think deep and constructively for the country .

http://community.vanguardngr.com/m/discussion?id=4565467%3ATopic%3A2877989

Scrap senate leave house of reos

For a long time, Okorocha has made sense in this.
We need legislators with no pay but sitting allowance be it unicameral or bi-cameral

Foolish looter....

I support Okorocha on this. Just scrap HOR. Each state is represented by 3 senators and that should be enough. Just ask yourself why do we not have community representative at State level? That is same thing as having over 1000 (360 members and about twice number of aides, personal assistants, etc) idle minds just arguing nonsense and sharing money in the name of Representatives. Alternatively, lets revert to Parliamentary System. It would funny to see Buhari arguing a bill at Parliament.

LegendHero:
I think the best thing to do is to scrap the senate and leave the HOR since they represent each local government in Nigeria.

For example, each local government need to have a representation in the FG to make it a house of the people, because Some state are dominated by a certain ethnic group, this means the ethnic minorities will never have a voice forever at the center if we scrap the HOR and sustain the Senate.

We copied the USA system but we don't have enough resources to sustain this kind of democracy or let me say we are too greedy to uphold this kind of expensive democracy.

Verdict: Scrap the bleeping senate once and for all

On my own submission, we do not need the HOR. They are not representing any LG. How many times have your HOR member mentioned your LGA at the floor of the house? In any case, they represent average of 2 LGs and the cost associated with this "white elephant" is HUGE. Just imaging, you eliminate HOR, you will also eliminate the cost of their political aides, personal assistants, housing allowances, vehicle cost, running expenses, etc. Then you release 1000 or so workforce into the labour market. they should go and work and not wait for 4 years to come and be shooting innocent people.

"The published documents show Nigerian senators will earn $55,000 a year in salary, while house of representatives members will earn $42,000—but that’s not the real story. For lawmakers, the big bucks come in form of the generous allowances. Put together, each lawmaker will cost taxpayers $540,000 to maintain in 2017." https://qz.com/africa/983331/a-dogged-transparency-campaign-reveals-why-it-pays-to-be-a-lawmaker-in-nigeria/

Impliedly, it costs Nigeria N70Billion a year to keep the HOR. We cannot continue to afford this monumental WASTE. This excludes the cost of property maintenance, personnel, etc.

Lol

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Supported 100%

I think the best thing to do is to scrap the senate and leave the HOR since they represent each local government in Nigeria.

For example, each local government need to have a representation in the FG to make it a house of the people, because Some state are dominated by a certain ethnic group, this means the ethnic minorities will never have a voice forever at the center if we scrap the HOR and sustain the Senate.

We copied the USA system but we don't have enough resources to sustain this kind of democracy or let me say we are too greedy to uphold this kind of expensive democracy.

Verdict: Scrap the bleeping senate once and for all

He’s on the right track....they should scrap house and then finally scrap Nigeria altogether!!!

Okoroawusa making sense for the first time

Why not senate, reps is more representative of Nigeria than senate

Ctorch:
Senator Rochas Anayo Okorocha has canvassed for the reduction of Parliamentarians representing each state of the federation , saying the nation cannot afford their expenditure anymore .

Okorocha , a former Governor representing Imo West Senatorial District , stated this while contributing to a Committee report on MTEF at the Senate Thursday ’s plenary .

He faulted the bicameral legislature, saying that there was nothing too sacrosanct that Senators and House of Representatives members were doing that only senators could not do .

In his reaction to the 2019 budget deficit , which was revealed by the Committee report on Budget and National Planning , the former Governor said , government was expending too much funds on lawmakers .

“ Mr . President of the Senate , distinguished colleagues, let ’s tell ourselves the truth . Look at the number of House of Representatives members and Senators. ”
“ To me, what is too important that a House member is doing that a Senator from the same state is not doing ?”

“ It is time for us to sacrifice and I want to say that a Senator is enough to represent a State in order to cut cost . We must do sacrifice for the nation.”
Okorocha added that government should spend more money on production that would yield revenue for the country rather than capital expenditures .

Reacting, Senate President , Dr Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan said , the Constitution provided for the practice of bicameral legislature, saying Okorocha was at liberty to sponsor a bill recommending one Parliament .

Senate President explained that the existence of upper and lower legislative Chambers was to enable lawmakers think deep and constructively for the country .

http://community.vanguardngr.com/m/discussion?id=4565467%3ATopic%3A2877989

Think deeply indid. And the result of them thinking deeply make Nigeria developed as Singapore.Idiot people.

scrap the senate and reduce number of HOR to 180