The Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, has advocated the scrapping of the Senate in order to save cost and reduce financial burden on the government.

He also advocated for the adoption of Stephen Orosaye report which recommended the merging of federal government’s agencies that perform similar functions in order to save the country’s resources and ensure effectiveness.

Mr Fayemi spoke at one of the panel sessions on the sidelines of the 25th edition of the Nigerian Economic Summit with the theme, ‘Nigeria 2050: Shifting gears,’ as reported by the Punch.

Mr Fayemi said the type of legislative system that would be more productive for Nigeria in this current economic situation “is a unicameral legislature.”

Remember how Rochas Okorocha, a senator representing Imo West Senatorial District, expressed a similar idea.

Mr Okorocha lamented the cost of running the Senate and suggested the reduction in number of senators in each state to one so as to save cost.

Also remember how ngg.ng reported how the Italian Parliament reduced its parliamentary representation to reduce or cut costs for a decade.

In Nigeria, the legislative arm consists of 109 Senate members and a 360-member House of Representatives, on yearly basis gulps millions of naira.

In the recently presented 2020 Budget proposals, N125 billion has been set aside for the National Assembly.

Conclusively, Governor Fayemi argues that he supports a Unicameral legislature, with the scrapping of Senate and focusing on the House of Representatives, as it shows it the legislative arm that represents in order to cut down the cost of running government in the country.


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Source: https://ngg.ng/2019/10/10/gov-fayemi-calls-for-adoption-of-unicameral-legislature/

He is making sense

It is a wise suggestion but it is easy to say than to practice.now you too don't tell us you are going for senate bcs you all present and ex governors have turned senate house to your retirement home .