Founder of the Centre for Values and Leadership (CVL), Prof Pat Utomi, has advised the federal government to shut down the National Assembly in the interest of the masses following the economic hardship COVID-19 foisted on the nation.
Utomi gave this advice in an interview he granted The Sun where he chastised the political class alleging them of self-serving and aggrandizing.
His word: But I bet you, the political class will not even berth an eyelid, they will still want to spend on themselves everything they have budgeted… I will personally suspend government (putting it that way); suspend the National Assembly for the year. First of all, because where oil prices are, we need a revised budget, so what was earmarked for National Assembly should be used to provide a kind of social safety net for the poor…
“We need a drastic measure like suspending the National Assembly for the year; they can have a few Whatsapp meetings from their homes on anything that is important. The executive branch should trim its budget by 60 per cent; all these running up and own should stop, and then spend what savings you then make on such steps to start a new kind of economic activity; driving agriculture, driving productive sectors, driving the revival of some mining type, etc.”
