By: Isiyaku Eazee Abdullahi

Do you have any sense of shame?

You said you are representing your constituency. You have been in the State Assembly, House of Representatives or Senate for more than two terms.

Now you are serving your third or fourth time and in all these years, you have never sponsored a bill, raised a motion, or even rise to raise any issue of national interest or of concern to your constituents. All you do is to buy beautiful dress, iron them well, polish your Italian shoe, wear designer wrist watches and sit in the hallowed chambers to warm your seat , occasionally clap when you hear something about allowances, doze off, wake up when there is a loud noise of the usual "yes", raise your hand in support without knowing what you are supporting, the plenary ends, you drive away.

The following day, exotic jeeps are brought to the Assembly and shared. You walk smiling from molar to molar, you collect your keys and move away with your car while raining praises on the Chief Presiding officers. You have never brought a project to your constituency, you got no job for no one. Even your legislative aides were hired from Abuja.

No one from your place is worth the job. You hardly come home to your people . When you do, it is once in a year and you use such opportunity to show off your latest car as you drive round town in obvious display of primitive arrogance. When your children are getting married, your home town is no longer good enough to host your in laws.

The marriage is consummated in Abuja, supervised by your new found friends and family in Abuja. Your kinsmen are too primitive and unpolished to represent your family. You spend several millions in celebration when your constituents are hungry and at least one of them dies every week as a result of some sickness and lack of drugs which ten or twenty thousand naira could have provided. Then you wait.....until some months to election.

You remember your people, your home town, your family, your old friends. Then you start looking for a few miserable bags of rice to share. You accompany it with some stupid bars of soap and sometimes, make it heavy with some God-punished one or two thousand naira expecting people's support.
I ask you; please who are you representing? What do you still think of Nigerians? If you know that is what you do, don't even come home before and after 2019.

Nigerians are so poor , they can't afford guns to shoot at you. But you know what? They have their voices; very angry and hot voices to shout you down and off. Some have stones around their houses and when they see you, they can stone you and they will not listen even if we beg them.

If you are in doubt, ask your friend who went to Ningi displaying his affluence, exhibiting his arrogance and he met with anger of a people completely misrepresented. This is 2016, may we be alive to see 2019.