Tension Hits NASS As Tinubu Sets To Scrap Senate (pix)

COMRADES, yesterday after my routine on NAIRALAND, then I continued with my scoop for old news stories online, accidentally, I came across this old headline, what next? I put a call across to a source at the presidency for clarification and the source affirmed to me that sometime ago he heard something like that being discussed from the grape vine in the presidency Without further ado, I made another call to a source at the National Assembly and asked whether NASS is aware of the ongoing plans for the scraping of the senate? He confirmed that he once overheard some legislators discussing about it in hush voices, then I asked for the contact of the senator representing my district for verification, but as at the time of filling this report the number is still switched off.Excerpt: Former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is now advocating for only one National Assembly, saying having two Assemblies is consuming the funds of the country. He particularly called for the cancellation of the senate, stressing that they are performing similar functions which the House of the Representatives would have done successfully Tinubu who is also a former senator in the second republic said scrapping of the senate will allow the federal government to have funds to implement their agendas for the poor masses. He spoke at the 2012 annual conference and awards ceremony of the Leadership Newspaper Group in Abuja According to him, 'we have kept complaining about the cost of governance and the recurrent expenditure...but we have never examined the structural problems of even the constitution that we are operating'. 'Why do we need two Houses of National Assembly when House of Representatives represent smaller constituencies enough in the same number of population? Why not get rid of the senate? To equip better and effective legislative activities, let us start examining that'.Culled from Daily Post Newspaper