NASS ultimatum: APC stalwart lampoons SERAP over bullet-proof vehicles

A stalwart of the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC), Dr. Jibril Tafida has described as "treacherous unfairness", the 7-day ultimatum given to the National Assembly to halt the planned N110billion purchase of bullet-proof cars.

In a media statement he issued Sunday night, Dr. Tafida said SERAP's threat, as a "hitherto exceptionally respected governance watchdog is most unfortunate and devastating to those desirous of the best obtainable security and comfort for the federal parliamentarians who are the de facto producers of democratic governance and prosperity".

Dr. Tafida expressed dismay over the stand of SERAP that the parliamentarians don't deserve such class of security devices and basic comforts, " in a country that, over the last decade, showed instances of parliamentarians being kidnapped and ransom paid for their release, a situation that substantially unsettled the operators of the engine room of democratic governance for the discharge of their duties and responsibilities as required by the law".

He then stated that Distinguished Senators and Right Honorables, "completely exposed to the enduring storms of insecurity would imply that the entire over 260 million Nigerians and, therefore, the entire country, are completely insecure".

He went on to say that foreign investors would be convincingly scared if the status quo is upheld, adding that "they would say, only a mad investor would hazard wasting his money in a country where even top echelon of governance can be kidnapped and or killed, as hawk feast on chicks".

The APC stalwart said it was "most devastating to note that SERAP could not spew a bile, or chose not to do so for whatever reasons, over the hundreds of billions of Naira drained on the entire education sector with a pathetically incommensurate development to show".

He lamented that SERAP rather "chose to make infantile suggestions on a project so vital to the prosperity of the country's democracy as the security and comfort of the lawmakers.

"The ultimatum, therefore, only exposes SERAP's treacherous unfairness against Nigeria's federal parliament and, indeed, Nigerian democracy, as if it is doing a hatchet job. SERAP is goofing", he added.

mad man Tafida what makes his life different from ours?

Exactly what a useful idiot will say, like the ones on Nairaland whose purchases have been subsidized at a rate of -80% just for being the looter, cartel and cocaine man useful Idiots.