Ibrahim Shekarau, the senator for Kano Central, has requested President Bola Tinubu to reduce the number of federal lawmakers.
He claimed that the federal government was creating an excessive number of parastatals and organizations.
In an interview with Channels Television Politics Today on Wednesday, Shekarau claimed that keeping the federal MPs in office was expensive for the nation.
He said, “Left to me, we don’t need to have the two chambers, the two houses
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“It’s costing the country. I agree, a democracy means getting as many involved as possible, but the way it is going on now, it’s almost 500 legislators nationwide; I don’t think we really need this much at the moment.”
“The National Assembly is made up of 109 senators and 360 House of Representatives members.”
The former governor of Kano State also stated that fewer parastatals would result in fewer monitoring responsibilities, lessening the pressure on the central government.
“Then you’ll discover that the legislative arm will also have to be [downsized] because if there isn’t much to do at the centre, you don’t need all of this sea of hundreds of people really to do oversight assignments.
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“I have been subscribing to the idea of devolution of powers. The Federal Government should really cut its own costs by devolving a lot of these responsibilities down the line, to the states and to the local governments,” he added.
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