Mr Abbas is reportedly planning to increase the number of the standing committees to 145 from 110.
A group, African Parliamentary Advocacy and Reform Group , has warned the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, against the planned increase in the number of the standing committees of the House to 145.
Mr Okereke frowned at the Balkanisation of committees by successive speakers since 1999, noting that committees are being used as bargaining chips to reward allies. “We have credible information suggesting that the 10th House of Representatives may have further increased the number of standing committees from the ninth House of Representatives 109 to an alleged outrageous 145 standing committees,” the statement reads.
“An empirical analysis of the 109 standing committees of the ninth House of Representatives shows that several of the committees 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.
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