By Loretta B Manele

Having the constituent assembly is important because it can advise government on what government system is best for us.

Peter Shanel Agovaka, minister for Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade (MFAET) spoke briefly about this at the Sin Die Motion in parliament recently.

He said coming up with this constituent assembly is important for the country because the assembly can advise the government about the government system that is suitable for the country.

Agovaka added that as stated by the member of parliament for Central Honiara, we are still finding what government system is suitable for us.

“We are still looking for this and it is important because the constituent assembly will be able to meet, discuss, debate and come up with a report to bring to government and parliament”

Moreover, Agovaka said at the meantime, the call for devolution of power is also important.

He explained that the devolution is to relocate powers from the central government down to the provincial government so they can have the power to collect revenue or to do other things.

“To invite investments or do investments elsewhere”

He added that the other issue is decentralisation which is the relocation of administrative functions and that is something that both the national government and the provincial government have to look at.

Agovaka said the bill is defeated however they will come back again with the bill and look at the report from the Bills and Legislation Committee (BLC) and see how they can address issues raised by the committee.

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