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Former Edo State governor, Senator Oserheimen Osunbor, has said that the nation is better off with a bicameral legislature other than a unicameral legislature.
Osunbor spoke during the First Senator E.A. Lamai Memorial Lecture in Abuja, with the theme: “Nigerian Senate and the Quest for Nation Building: 1st-4th Republic.”
Lamai, a First Republic Senator from Fugar, Etsako Central Local Government Area, Edo State, passed away on May 14, 2009.
The event organised by the Senator E.A. Lamai Foundation, had in attendance, former Chief of Staff to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Chief Mike Oghiadomhe; former governor of Edo State and Senator-elect, Edo North Senatorial District, Adams Oshiomhole; former Governor of Imo State and senator representing Imo West Senatorial District, Senator Rochas Okorocha; and former Minister of Works and Housing and former Senator representing Borno North, Senator Sanusi Daggash.
Osunbor stated that the Senate, being part of the legislative arm of government, has the distinct feature of being the arm of government that is closest to the people.
He added that the constituents and the public have easy access to their senators than they would have to their governors or even the president or vice president or deputy governor.
In his address, the Executive Director, Senator E.A. Lamai Foundation, Chief Richard Lamai, said the Senate and other legislative arms were the only distinctive organs differentiating other forms of government. Delivering the lecture entitled: “X-raying the Nigerian Senate (1st-4th Republic) as a Tool for Nation Building,” Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), said the Nigerian Senate holds a crucial position as the upper chamber of the country’s bicameral legislature, actively shaping the nation’s political landscape and policy framework.
