In order to reduce the high cost of governance involved in bi-cameral legislature, ActionAid Nigeria has called for the scrapping of the Senate or the House of Representatives.
The Board of Trustees (BoT) of ActionAid stated this in a statement issued yesterday after a review of the ‘State the Nation’, stressing that while it wasn’t discarding efforts of the government in improving the economy, it said much more could be done to make Nigeria better and safer for the citizens.
The organisation was also of the opinion that the proposed 2020 budget has huge provisions for debt servicing, and does not address the high need for infrastructural development given the growing population of Nigeria.
ActionAid explained further that the 2020 budget should capture adequate funding for agriculture, health and education sectors given their strategic importance.
It stressed that agriculture employs up to 80 percent of the population, especially in the informal sector, where the majority of the small-scale food producers are women farmers.
Meanwhile, it called on the ninth National Assembly to revisit and prioritise the sexual harassment in Tertiary Education Institution Prohibition Bill, while also urging authorities of tertiary institutions across the country to take preventive measures to protect female students by setting up safe systems that protect survivors and encourage them to report and get justice.