This is a context of what the CBN Governor, Mallam Lamido sanusi said about the high cost of spending on recurrent expenditure

''What are our priorities as a nation? What can we do about the cost of governance? We just passed a budget of N4.9trillion,the bulk of which is recurrent expenditure.we have a constitution that says we must have a minister from every state,so we must have 36 ministers.Do we need 36 ministries? These are questions we need to ask, Do we really need a bi-camera legislature.Do we need all the ministries, depts and agencies that we have or can we do something about that and reduce the cost of governance and free up funds for education and health? ""CBN GOVERNOR