The Primate of Anglican Communion (Church of Nigeria) Most Rev’d Nicholas Okoh has advocated the adoption of a part-time legislature as a means of reducing the cost of governance that will pave way for more developmental projects in the country.
The Archbishop, who made this known in Abuja on Wednesday, lamented the alleged huge waste incurred in carrying out government activities.
He recommended part-time sitting for assembly members and a slash in the remunerations of those in government, stressing that, “to reduce the cost of governance requires more than reducing salaries.
“I think it requires a structural adjustment; that is to say, should the people in parliament be there on permanent basis or on part time basis. If they are there on part time basis, they earn allowances.
“But as it is now, they are employed in the business of law making”.
The religious leader insisted that, “the country has to choose, if really we want to reduce the cost of governance”.
Noting that the reduction of salary is not going to be much because the salary itself is not much, he stressed that, “if we take a more serious approach on what has been done in the past, let those who are members of parliament do so on part time basis, then, it becomes possible to have the reduction of expenses being made on the law makers.”
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