National Confab: Group wants fed ministries reduced to 10.

Lagos — Lagos State chapter of Ikot Ekpene, Essien Udim and Obot Akara Development Union, IKEDOA, has advocated the reduction of federal ministries to ten, as part of efforts towards producing a workable document for Nigerians by delegates at the ongoing National Conference.

The group also recommended that states be made to remit 30 per cent of accruals to the federal purse and should also be allowed to control resources, rather than the blanket control currently being exercised by the Federal Government.

A communiqué by five of its executive members also recommended a parliamentary system of government with a bi-cameral legislative system comprising the Senate and the House of Representatives.
It also recommended that states have their

separate legal system, with court hierarchy up to Court of Appeal and that legislators should work on part-time basis.

The communiqué, signed by Mr. Samuel Udo Usoro, and others, pointed out that the group decided to toe the line, having been persuaded that the 2014 conference will produce a progressive nation where peace, justice and happiness will reign.

IKEDOA, however, listed 38 items which it believed should be in the legislative and policy framework of the state.
Some of the items include arms and ammunition, customs and excise duty, communication, prisons, electricity, lands, electoral system, local government and constitution.

It recommended that such items as defence, citizenship, currency and exchange control, foreign affairs, population, creation of states, national flag, titles, treaties, stamp duty and immigration should be the exclusive reserve and policy framework of the federal authority.

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