No distinction between parliament and executive.

I appreciate your frustration and anger over what obtains in your country in terms of corruption, poverty, lopsided appointments, nepotism, the encapsulated media and the lack of check and balances, which separation of power should have facilitated. To start with, let me observe that your country fits into the parliamentary form of government, as you mentioned that ministers were appointed from parliament. If that is the case, there is nothing anomalous about it. The same system works well in Britain. The other popular or common alternative in a democracy is the presidential system being operated in the US, whereby the ministers(Secretaries or so) come from outside the Congress. I won't say that one form of government is better than the other in preventing some of the problems you mentioned. What I am saying in essense is that either form of government can be abused by selfish politicians. During the First Republic in Nigeria, a parliamentary system of government was in place, patterned after that of our colonial masters. Our local politicians did not allow it to work, or maybe it was not well suited to our environment. There were constant upheavals and misrule, which culminated in the 1st bloody coup d'etat of 1966. On return to party politics in 1979, the presidential system of government was adopted. Apart from being very expensive to run, it did not bring about any improvement in the welfare and rulership of the people as envisaged. Its failure led to the coup of 1983. We resumed our presidential experiment in 1999, and the country is currently almost on the brink of collapse from corruption, poverty, millitancy, violent crimes, nepotism, name it. The question now is: Is it not high time we adopted a system of government best suited to our peculiar circumstances in Africa? Our leaders, while asking for our votes and on assumption of power, swear by the Bible and the Qur'an to rule with all good conscience and in the interest of the people. Fake oaths all! The modern God does not act instantly. Did I hear somebody suggest swearing by our ancient gods, which act fast? Sorry, we are all entrenched in christianity and islam. The way out? The masses of the people need attitudinal change to effect a change in our leaders. God help us in Africa.

On my part I would prefer to have a parliament government than to have an executive government.I would like to eradicate those Senate that just wasted the money of the government.