Daily Independent (Lagos)
9 October 2008
Senate President, David Mark, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, met on Wednesday with President Umaru Yar'Adua on the much-awaited ministerial list that would signal a re-engineering of his Cabinet.
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We hope that the 2 honorable members of the National Assembly will hold steadfast to preventing wastage in govt and duplication of bureaucracy. We dont need eight (8) additional Ministers of do-nothing if the 19 ministries we already have have nothing to do - they just need to be more efficient, creative and dedicated to the common good, that's all. Just creating ministries & paying salaries of some ignorant corrupt Ministers and their minions pretending to make Nigeria's decay go away when in fact they compound the decay, is not the right way to go. We want the National Assembly to ask the executive branch to submit its detailed national proposal (masterplan) to the Assembly of the people's Reps to debate, investigate and voted on before any Minister is approved with a clear agenda and a timeline of deliverables. Enough of all these magomago and secrecy. We dont operate under military decrees anymore. This is what the Assembly should've been doing since day one in May 2007.