IF we truly want to fix Nigeria, we ONLY need to do ONE thing-
COMPLETELY make the Legislature financially unattractive.
That’s the ONLY seemingly simple step needed to truly fix the challenges of having opportunists in the National Assembly and of the Executive misbehaving.
IF you successfully make the Senate and Representative positions a totally unattractive office financially, you will start to get people who really want to serve the country and interests of the citizens will be the ones who aspire for the seat.
Unlike the current scavengers.
The Nigerian senator actually earns MORE than Donald Trump or Theresa May, and you wonder why people literally kill to get into the senate, why retired governors see it as a political nursing home and why the whole NASS National Assembly is just a comedy.
Do you now see why?
And this is why the National Assembly perpetually fails to do a thorough job at really checkmating excesses of the Executive (except in the few occasions where out of animosity they put up a faux opposition to government policies).
It’s all because they are not there to serve. And in my opinion I think it’s better to not just make the legislature financially unattractive, it should also be made PART TIME.
The reason being it will make people do something else to earn legitimate money so that they don’t have to take bribes or steal just to live well.
When people are professional politicians and political opportunists with no source of livelihood apart from politicking is the reason why these people have no honour, no ideology, stand for nothing and change parties anyhow because they are loyal to their pockets.
Not the people.
We must realise that the true power to change things and fix the country lies squarely with the legislature.
The President can choose to be unintelligent and unsmart but the onus lies with the National Assembly to keep him/her on his toes and kick him out IF he is incompetent.
But this will NEVER happen in a scenario where you call “lawmakers” people whose primary motivation for political office is to hold power, make money, disobey the law, enjoy the benefits of office and basically live as parasites off the commonwealth and resources of the people. The truth is that the office of the President ALONE is NOT where true power lies.
The true power lies in the National Assembly- those men and women who you elect (or fail to elect) are the real people who can make/change laws, curtail the President & basically fix the country.
And obviously the decision to make the National Assembly financially unattractive can only be made by the same opportunists who currently benefit from the jumbo salaries and pay packages. Is that not interesting?
2 comments:
First let's DO AWAY with BICAMERAL Legislature, a House of Representatives is MORE than ENOUGH!
Nigeria doesn't have the money ���� of America,the GDP of each American (50) States is GREATER than Nigeria's Annual Budget.
I know some contries (more than half of the world's governing system) thrive on unicameralism but that isn't the problem here in our clime. The same old legs can still come in and rear their corrupt-laden heads
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