The Executive governor of Ekiti state, Dr Kayode Fayemi has called on the federal government to implement the Orusanya report to the letter and also scrap the Senate.
He made this call while considering the cost of governance which he says is huge and unsustainable. He said that what informed the call was the economic realities on ground and suggested a unicameral legislature.
Governor Fayemi made this call at the 25th edition of the Nigerian Economic Summit with the theme, “Nigeria 2050: Shifting gears”.
In attendance were, the Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Babatunde Fowler; Managing Director of Nigerian Breweries, Jordi Borrut Bel, and the Country Manager of the International Finance Corporation, Eme Essien.
According to Dr Kayode, he said that the Orusanya report that recommended the scrapping and merging of some government institutions should be given due attention.
He said, “We do need to look at the size of government in Nigeria and I am an advocate of a unicameral legislature. What we really need is the House of Representatives, because that is what represents”.
“You have three senators from little Ekiti and you have three senators from Lagos state”.
“It’s a no-brainer that it’s unequal, I guess the principle is not proportionality but that if you are a state, you get it automatically.
“But I think that we can do away with that. There are several things that we can do away with within the government.
“The Oronsaye report that proposed mergers of several Ministries Departments and Agencies that are doing the same thing is something that the government should pay serious attention to and reduce the resources being expended on them.”
Governor Fayemi also spoke on the security votes that many government functionaries enjoy that its not peculiar to Nigeria alone.
“The important thing is the government utilises a wide range of mechanisms to guarantee security in a state and it is not just ammunition and weapons that I am talking about.”
The Nigeria National Assembly is made up of 109 Senators in the red chamber and 360 House of representative members in the green chamber.
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