Yesterday 12th May 2014 deliberations started early ...
I presided over the meeting because the Chairman was unavoidably absent. Her flight was delayed.
We went through the minutes of the previous meeting, amendments were made and adopted.
We then gave heads of the sub groups in our committee the chance to go on, harmonize and marry each position paper each group presented last week, though, they worked on it during the break but they had to sit and trash it out again.
We gave them 4 hours to do that and we reconvened at 4pm. By 5pm, the head of these sub groups finished their work and promised to submit a final report the following day.
We adjourned till the following day.
The chairperson and I received an invite that there will be a meting of Chairmen, co-chairmen and deputy chairmen and the 50 wise men - remember them? I hinted you about them some weeks ago. We are to meet with the conference management on Wednesday.
Stay tune to hear what transpires...
Away from my committee.
A committee want to expunge the current bilateral legislation system and substitute with unilateral - I don't know what you make of this but pause for a moment! After our resolutions and recommendations, it will be passed through the legislators, now do you honestly think they'll approve of this and implement? You want to render some of them jobless chai!...and
you want then to accept your position? Oh well time shall tell.
I also heard the Committee on Restructuring of Government want to give autonomy to local governments - I agree but they said the state governors will run their elections. Issorai
See you soon.
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The unicameral legislature thing, honestly not sure how it's an improvement: what they proposed is a 50-50 formula whereby half go in like the senate (equal numbers per state, aka state equality) and half by population.
ReplyDeleteIf today's house of reps could be adjusted to represent by population, which means local governments standardized by population, which requires us to know the population in the first place, then we'd have more or less achieved the same, while keeping the advantage of a robust, difficult to manipulate, bicameral legislature.
And also of course, things like training so that legislators are better able to perform their work. We'll get there. (Interesting thing is that some of my colleagues online don't seem to believe that we will get there, but we will). Simple things like removing Farouk Lawan from such high office and replacing with someone who cares about the work will move us in the right direction. More elections, less imposition. That's just my view sha.
Also, the legislators need to be accountable, just like you are providing reports of your activities. If they need to hire people to do their work, they should. Nothing wrong with PhDs working for a representative, or seasoned politicians, or technically/technologically astute staff. It is supposed to be serious work.
Nothing wrong with making suggestions for changes here and there with a view to making improvements! But the issue is that the new changes would not yield the desired improvements because they would not be implemented faithfully. Nothing wrong with the present system (bicameral) to suggest for a unicameral legislature, in fact it is better with the bi- because even if you succeed in imposing for instance a rubber stamp President for the upper chamber you may have a Ghali or a Tambuwal who may give the Executive some headache! Chai Delegates remember diariz God woh! You want to sack some 'honourable' crooks!
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