{"id":281359,"date":"2023-07-27T08:15:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T07:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=281359"},"modified":"2023-07-27T08:15:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T07:15:24","slug":"reduce-standing-committees-from-109-to-60-group-tells-abbas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/07\/27\/reduce-standing-committees-from-109-to-60-group-tells-abbas\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduce standing committees from 109 to 60, group tells Abbas"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong><span class=\"s1\">Serious decline in legislative assertiveness<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The African Parliamentary Advocacy and Reform Group (APARG) has called on Tajudeen Abbas, Speaker of the House of Representatives, not to increase the number of standing committees in the green chamber to 145.<\/p>\n<p>It was learnt that the Speaker is<span class=\"s1\">\u00a0scheduled to announce the composition of the house standing committees on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The group via a statement released on Tuesday by director of APARG, Chibuzo Okereke said<span class=\"s2\">\u00a0the group received reports that Abbas is planning to increase the house standing committees from\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">109 to 145.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Okereke said increasing the number of the committees rather than the quality will result in a \u201cserious decline in legislative assertiveness\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe have credible information suggesting that the 10th house of representatives may have further increased the number of standing committees from the ninth house of reps 109 to an alleged outrageous 145 standing committees,\u201d the statement reads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe right honourable speaker may note that over the years especially since 1999 and the 4th <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/07\/11\/obasanjo-its-illegal-for-national-assembly-to-fix-members-pay\/\">national assembly<\/a>, the house of representatives standing committees have been progressively fragmented, proliferated and balkanised with each new assembly largely due to political considerations and patronage over legislative effectiveness and productivity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe trends in political decisions to progressively increase the quantity of the standing committees rather than the quality of the committees have resulted in a serious decline in legislative assertiveness, effectiveness, productivity and value for money in public service delivery arising from weak oversight design, low participation of Members in the numerous perceived low-grade committees, conflicts in the exercise of legislative oversight powers on executive agencies, committees\u2019 incapacity, distress on the limited infrastructure for committee meetings and continuous low perception of citizens on the significance of the governance role of the national assembly to Nigerians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWhat is worst Mr speaker, is that most of the committees due to the scarce resources of the institution of the national assembly, are overburdened and risk nearly 100 percent dependence on the executive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/06\/04\/audit-report-senate-slams-accountant-general-over-n910bn-loan-to-mdas\/\">MDAs<\/a> which they oversight as a source for operational survival in performing their constitutional functions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Okereke said\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">the excessive fragmentation and \u201cproliferation\u201d of the committee system without consideration of the important principles of robustness and effectiveness, weaken the house of representatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAn empirical analysis of the 109 standing committees of the ninth house of representatives shows that several of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/06\/16\/breaking-njc-empanels-seven-committees-to-investigate-petitions-against-judicial-officers\/\">committees<\/a> did not hold any meetings nor performed any significant legislative activities under their committees throughout the life span of the ninth assembly while some of them held meetings only about three times in the entire four years,\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">Okereke said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Okereke<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0said Abbas should \u201cdrastically reduce\u201d the existing 109 committees to about 60 for \u201ceffective management, efficiency and measured productivity\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serious decline in legislative assertiveness The African Parliamentary Advocacy and Reform 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