APC chieftain advocates merger of House of Reps, Senate

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress(APC), Mr Abiodun Salami, has called for the adoption of unicameral legislative strategy to trim outgo of governance.

Salami ,a erstwhile Assistant Publicity Secretary of the enactment successful Lagos, made the telephone successful an interrogation with the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN)on Sunday.

He was reacting to calls successful immoderate quarters that the state should jettison its existent two-chamber National Assembly and follow unicameral legislature to trim outgo of governance.

NAN reports that unicameral legislature is simply a strategy with 1 enclosure oregon house, dissimilar a bicameral legislature which has 2 chambers(Senate and House of Representatives).

Some countries with unicameral legislatures include:- China (National People’s Congress) Sweden (Riksdag) Norway (Storting) Denmark (Folketing)and Portugal (Assembly of the Republic).

Salami said the Senate and House of Representatives should beryllium merged ,then the fig of legislators pruned, to person a azygous -chamber legislature.

He said operating the House of Representatives and the Senate unneurotic is simply a load connected the country’s resources.

“Bi-cameral legislature is wasteful.We tin merge the Senate and the House of Representatives to person a azygous location to easiness the concern of lawmaking and trim the immense funds spent to support the 2 chambers that we person now.

“We tin merge the 2 chambers and past trim the fig of lawmakers .The state spends a batch maintaining the 109 Senators and 360 members of House of Representatives

“We are having challenges with the system close now.We should beryllium acceptable to marque sacrifices and instrumentality bold steps.The bicameral legislature we are having ,to me,is frivolity”,he said.

Salami said those who reason that unicameral legislature is not suited for the statesmanlike strategy of authorities that Nigeria operates person constricted cognition of however things enactment successful different countries.

“Those who reason that Nigeria,as a statesmanlike system,cannot follow unicameral legislature are incorrect .They request to cheque good arsenic determination are immoderate countries moving the aforesaid statesmanlike strategy arsenic ours and inactive tally unicameral legislature.