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Its ridiculous that the Federal law makers are insensitive to the plights of their constituents and common man in general.
Is it not absurd ?
In a country where majority of Nigerians live on 0-1-0 meal a day and payment of thirty thousand naira minimum wages is extremely difficult to pay for the states.The law makers' concern is to buy cars for themselves at N35m per one.
It's the height of insensitivity for the House of Representatives to be thinking of buying such luxury at this present situation of Nigeria. No brazen act could rbe worst than daring the masses. If not , with hunger in the land ,with obvious poverty ravaging common man,they wouldn't have conceived such wastage of people's money.
No doubt,this confirms how profligate majority of our political office holders are.
Without occupying such office, how many of them in the real sense of it can afford such luxurious car?
Not quite long, Gbajabiamila was said to have procured a car of 100 million naira or so for his wife as a gift.Why not ?His membership of the house of Reps for over sixteen years made him buy such "small car " otherwise ,he would have bought a car of a billion naira if he has not occupied the legislative position.
This is the main reason why many of them want to hold public office for life to finance their ostentatious living styles and no other reason.
It's high time that Civil Society as well as Nigerians as a whole start canvassing for a part time legislative houses that attract only sitting allowances and our Constitution amended to that effect.
Majority of the present law makers and their leadership have nothing to offer the good people of Nigeria and the country other than enrichment of themselves.
Nigerians as a whole should prepare to march on the House of Representatives until this idea of profligacy is stopped.
Toyin Raheem.
