ASSESSING THE OVERSIGHT ROLE OF THE SENATE IN THE EDUCATION SECTOR, 2015-2019
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Background of the Study
The Legislature is an important organ of a country which balances the power of the Executive and the Judiciary in the exercise of authority. It is one of the central institutions of democracy and it determines the extent to which government is responsive to citizens (Manona, 2016). The mandate of the National Assembly is achieved through passing legislation, overseeing government action, and representing constituencies and citizens in the affairs of government (Heywood, 2007). To better perform their oversight functions and ensure check and balance, it is imperative that Legislatures have adequate resources and capacity. The Nigerian National Assembly has enormous constitutional power and budgetary resources at its disposals to fulfil its mandates.For example, Section 88 of the Constitutions empowers each chamber of the National Assembly to investigate any issue it has power to make laws upon, and to conduct investigation into the affairs of any person or organisation charged with the responsibility of executing or administering the laws enacted by the National Assembly and disbursing or administering moneys appropriated by the National Assembly. However, Section 88 (2) provides that the power of investigation is exercisable only for the purpose of enabling the National Assembly to make laws with respect to any matter within its legislative competence; and expose corruption, inefficiency or waste in the execution or administration of laws within its legislative competence and in the disbursement or administration of funds appropriated by it. To enable the National Assembly perform its oversight roles, the National Assembly is constitutionally empowered to form Committees to procure all such evidence, written or oral, direct or circumstantial, as it may think necessary or desirable, and examine all persons. In this vein, the National Assembly can summon any person or institution to give evidence or produce documents, and to report to them.
Oversight is one of the activities through which the Legislature oversee and supervise the implementation of policies and actions enacted by it. The main object of oversight is to hold the Executive accountable for their action. Oversight involves monitoring the achievement of goals set by legislation and the government’s own programmes. Hence, oversight seeks to ensure transparency, accountability, good government, service delivery, public participation (Madue, 2012)
Statement of Problem
Education is a crucial element of human capital development and development (Office of the President of the Senate [OPS], 2019). Education is essential in providing skilled manpower to maintain, sustaining a countries economic activities for rapid socioeconomic development, improving life’s choices and the quality of living. The global community recognises access to quality education in the sustainable development goals as one of the essential elements for achieving a sustainable development. More so, the Vision 20: 2020 document and the sector to re-focus the country’s educational system in terms of access, equity, quality, infrastructure, teacher quality and development, curriculum relevance, funding and planning. Yet, education in Nigeria is faced with challenges, such as supply shortfall of educational institutions, inadequate funding of Basic, Secondary and Tertiary Institutions; lack of access to available Institutions, poor training of Teachers, high number of out of school children in the world, deterioration and/or inadequate educational infrastructure, progressively poor quality of education translating into poor performance in examinations, etcetera (OPS, 2019). In response to the state of education and other sectors in Nigeria, the Legislature is constitutionally mandated to make laws oversee sectoral policy implementation to address the crisis in the education sector. To enable it perform effectively, Legislature have established Committees to enable them perform effectively and efficiently. However, the National Assembly has been ineffective in exercising its Oversight functions over the Executive (Fashagba, 2009; Stapenhurst, Jacob and Olaore, 2016) because of lack of political will (Stapenhurst, Jacob and Olaore, 2016). This suggests that the Executive responsible for the sector are rarely called upon to account for failure. This has led to ineffectiveness, maladministration and misuse of government expenditure in the education sector. Failure to take action against cases of omission or ineffectiveness in the sector compromises good governance and democratic accountability in the Public Service. The adverse consequence is the poor quality of education. This study assesses the oversight role of the Senate in the Education Sector, 2015-2019.
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