The greatest bane of institutional development in Nigeria is the hurried approach to dealing with national challenges. Preference for adhoc and hybrid measures has always robbed the nation the opportunity to have defined and consistent system of building institutions that support real growth and development.
For some reasons devoid of rational thinking, some of the elites are complicit in misleading people by driving critical national conversation from jaundiced and myopic perspective.
At a time the issue on the table is how best to address the current recession in the economy deploying effective monetary and economic policies supported by strong institutions of government, some analysts and commentators went wild with emotion by suggesting that the country should have a part-time legislature.
Most of the interventions in the conversation unfortunately, were championed by individuals one ordinarily assumes have the learning and exposure to know better. In the first instance, what can be said to be the nexus or connect between having a full-time legislature and resolving the policy gaps and functional ineptitude that resulted in the parlous state of the economy. If the intention were altruistic and well thought out, the present situation of things demand a robust legislative input to strengthen institutions of state to deliver on strong policies and programme and ensure a paradigm shift.
Why then, of all times, would anyone who lays claim to being a good student of public policy and resource management, suggest that the solution to the country’s problems can be found in embracing the idea of part-time legislature. Perhaps, the long period of military governance in the country and the fact that the legislature has been denied the opportunity of having unabridged operational life, accounts for the perception that governance even in a democracy can be driven without a virile legislature.
Over the years, the legislature has refused to assert itself or even acquit the institution creditably because some of the legislators are simply ill-equipped, poorly informed, understandably lack the capacity to perform legislative functions and above all, create wrong impression about the place of the legislature in democratic setting. The timing of the calls for part time legislature and the coincidences around same, are simply suggestive but suffice it to state that those that clamour for a weak legislature must realize that there would be governments after the ‘strong man’, President Buhari.
Good laws are predicated on the principles that precedents are for all persons and we must as a people, resist the temptation of looking at individuals when making laws or drawing up policies that would endure. It’s even inconceivable to tinker with the idea of settling for a part-time legislature, if we really appreciate the volume of work expected to be done in creating the requisite legislative environment given the structural changes that must be made to draw the country out of economic recession.
Have the proponents of part time legislature paused for a moment to look at the constitutional role of the legislature at all levels. Except we are soaked in to the sentiment that all that the legislature does in Nigeria is to sit down and joke, there cannot be any justification for such ill-informed calls.
For freshers, it is apposite to state that the business of legislation involves more than what transpires on the floor of the chambers during plenary. Committee work takes more than sixty (60%) percent of the time of legislators and we cannot afford the luxury of inviting distractions in the name of part-time legislature or however described. We may not be comfortable with the character or faces of the members of the legislature as currently constituted at the Federal, State and Local governments, but that cannot be a strong reason for the clamour to destroy the institution that represents the heartbeat and soul of democratic practice.
The advocacy should be for all to be involved in mobilizing towards ensuring that persons to be elected as legislators must be men and women of character, sound education, knowledge, discipline and embodiment of the right values and gravitas to deliver on mandate. When once the process and benchmarks are right, the institution would definitely be strengthened for performance assurance.
Agreed that the legislature as presently constituted at all levels of government habours the good, the bad and the ugly, yet, that does not diminish its importance in driving a virile democracy anchored on the finite principles of separation of powers and the attendant checks and balances. The beauty of building a democratic order on the terms of internationally accepted best practices, which envisages a governmental system piloted by a thinking executive, an impartial judiciary and a strong legislature, is that governance becomes seamless and the government, responsive, sensitive, accountable and pro-people in every material particular.If any arm is weakened and forced to be unable to perform its constitutional role, the governance gaps would implode on the system and the society.
Nations of the world rise up to challenges through reasoned and measured approach and not by taking irrational and precipitate actions that compound the problem instead of providing solution.
문 프린세스
배의 편리함은 육지의 병거와 말보다 10배 이상 강하다고 할 수 있습니다.
라이즈 오브 올림푸스 100
이 모든 물리적 증거는 사람을 포함하여 포장되어 제거되었습니다.
문 프린세스
젊은 주인은 결국 아직 어려서 집을 운영하는 방법을 모릅니다.
에그벳300
그는 주의깊게 살펴보았다… 인상을 찌푸렸지만 말문이 막혔다.이제 그는 Fang Jinglong을 조금 질투합니다.
럭키 네코
명나라에는 공물 거래만 있었고 사적인 거래는 금지되었다.
안전한 슬롯 사이트
Liu Jian은 “폐하, 가해자를 엄중하게 처벌하도록 즉시 명령을 내리십시오. “라고 말했습니다.
무료 슬롯
Hongzhi 황제는 “이 기회에 잠시 휴식을 취합니다. 두통이 심합니다. “라고 말했습니다.
마종 웨이즈 2
부검을 하지 않으면 죽어야 하고, 부검을 하면 아직 살 희망이 있다.
와일드 바운티 쇼다운
Hongzhi 황제는 그의 날을 꼬집었고 지난 며칠은 정말 길었습니다.
슬롯 게임 사이트
Hongzhi 황제는 그의 마음이 차갑고 그의 삶이 무의미하다고 느꼈습니다.
파워 오브 토르 메가웨이즈
동시에 이 명송을 Zizhi Tongjian의 수준으로 끌어올린 황제이기도 하다.
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카지노 슬롯 머신
Zhang Heling의 눈은 빨개졌습니다. “언니 … 너무 배고파요.”
사다리 타기 도박 사이트
Hongzhi 황제는 즉시 모든 관리 앞에서 Hong Yan을 황실에 소환했습니다.
탑 슬롯
한자는 홍지황제를 이상하게 바라보았다. “당신은 외국인입니까?”
라이즈 오브 올림푸스
Xu Jing은 서둘러 “스승님, 정말 유감입니다. “라고 말했습니다.
파워 오브 토르 메가웨이즈
그러나 그는 감히 태만하지 않고 서둘러 “당신의 종이 떠날 것입니다. “라고 인사했습니다.
sm 슬롯
누가 당신의 땅을 빼앗고 당신을 여기로 추방했는지 잊었습니까?
배팅 룸
Liu Wenshan은 “대부님, 이 … 아들은 이해하지 못합니다.”
토토 픽 사이트
모두 일제히 스피커를 바라보았다.모두가 소리의 근원지를 바라보았고, 말을 건 사람은 Zhu Houzhao였습니다.
라이징 슬롯
Ma Wensheng은 약간 혼란스러워했습니다. “폐하의 명령이 무엇인지 모르겠습니다.”
슬롯 무료 쿠폰
Wang Jinyuan의 마음은 충격을 받았습니다. 그는 오늘 이렇게 엉망이 될 수 있는 바보가 아닙니다.
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