Success is Sure if... - Rt. Hon. Olanose James

If you can succed in FIALGSU you can succed in life

Rt. Hon Olanose james

SPEECH DELIVERED AT THE FIRST FIALGSU SRC 2019 LEGISLATIVE SUMMIT AND AWARD PRESENTATION BY RT HON OLANOSE JAMES A. AT AUD PRIMARY IMEKO ON THE 7TH OF DECEMBER 2019.

A legislature is a deliberative assembly with the authority to make laws for a political entity such as a country or city. Legislatures form important parts of most governments; in the separation of powers model, they are often contrasted with the executive and judicial branches of government

Beyond the intuition that says "I know one when I see one," how do you go about measuring the effectiveness of any given legislature?

A political Scientist Alan Rosenthal, What do we want our state legislatures of the 21st century to be? Of course we want them to be effective, to be good. But we also know that state legislatures will be heavily influenced by forces over which they have little control-technology in particular. The challenge is to remain true to the fundamental purposes of representative democracy and the legislative system.

So what is an effective, a good legislature in a time of dramatic change It's a question, for the most part, that has gone unanswered, and even unattended. And the answer as to what a good legislature is must come from legislators, legislative staff and concerned citizens.

For legislatures to be good, they must carry out the functions we expect of them in our system of representative democracy. The principal ones are balancing power, representing constituencies and making laws. In considering whether legislatures are doing their job (and hence are good), we have to examine how well they are performing these three functions.

Our hope for change as a nation is very high! In fact, our country should not strive to be developed only in the economic sense. Rather, it must strive to be a nation that is fully developed along all the dimensions: economically, politically, socially, spiritually, psychologically and culturally. We must be fully developed in terms of national unity, selfless service and social cohesion; in terms of social justice, political stability, quality of life; and in terms of social values, national pride and confidence. In this regard, I want to challenge you all at this summit to evolve a mechanism that will enable us fast track our growth and transformation this will bring about the development of our dear Local  government Imeko/Afon , Ogun state and Nigeria at large.