President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, warned Friday that there could be anarchy if the Senate was scrapped as being clamoured by some Nigerians.
Rather, he said those who were not comfortable with the senators in the current 9th Senate should vote them out in 2023 if they did not like their faces.
Lawan stated this while declaring open a retreat for top management staff members of the National Assembly and National Assembly Service Commission in Abuja.
He described the Senate as “a leveler which ensures that all parts of the country are equally represented unlike the House of Representatives where states with higher populations produce the highest number of lawmakers.”
The Senate President also faulted the argument of those clamouring for the scrapping of the Senate because of the perceived jumbo pay being earned by the senators.
He said the annual budget of the National Assembly was less than one per cent of the nation’s 2021 budget.
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