Opinions on why Nigeria’s current democracy has remained too expensive to manage are divided among the intelligentsia and other critics. But the general agreement is that there a need to eliminate wasteful spending and reduce the humongous salaries and allowances of political office holders. He said, “One way of reducing cost of governance is to do away with the current bicameral system, and put in place a one house (unicameral) National Assembly, which would save a lot of cost. We should have a unicameral legislature with part-time legislators. Sustaining the National Assembly is too expensive for the country.

Source: Punch June 22, 2019 23:26 UTC