Scorecard Needed to Keep Tabs on Nigerian Legislators

Via Grandiose Parlor

The proposed electoral reform will be incomplete without creating scorecards to keep track of the activities of all elected officials in the country, particularly the legislators – state and federal. This scorecard can only be championed and facilitated collaboratively by the Nigerian civil society and the electorate…The scorecard will document controversies in the legislature (such as the renovation of the official residences of speaker and deputy speaker of House of Representatives described earlier); keep track of their expenditures, salaries and allowances; and compile listings of each legislator’s bills and motions sponsored and ratified into law; their activities in house committees, and other floor deliberations while in session.

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