profligacy

We are in recession, why this largess on people who don't need cars,and these leaders will ask the rest of us to sacrifice for Nigeria,but they will not sacrifice anything.Clueless president,greedy ex presidents.

Nigeria is not in recession. honestly, they are deceiving others, they cant deceive me

Perfectdanny:
Why do these people value cars like this? I'm yet to understand o.

Do the cars take them from their sitting room to their kitchen or from their bedroom to their dining?

These people each have over 20 cars all over the world and you're still buying more for them.

Its quite shocking I tell u

lilmax:
waste of money...... buying cars for men that could by you and aisha together? this old man's brain is rusted

I wonder ooo

What?!!!!!! To me this is very silly.

Hope is not our money they will use to purchase the cars though. If yes, then Nigeria is in a big shiit.

Do these guyz need the car? They already have enof and a car is the least of their worries, while waste our resources.

Damn it, Buhari I have been silent on many things yhu do but if this is true I will be forced to call yhu a.........

I reserve my comment.

And what's the point of buying them cars? Including military dictators

Are the cars for planning coups or for destroying Nigeria.. This Booharry sef

Cc: caseless

monsurufatai:
And what's the point of buying them cars? Including military dictators

Are the cars for planning coups or for destroying Nigeria.. This Booharry sef

Cc: caseless

we will buy from innoson this time around.

Caseless:
we will buy from innoson this time around.

What's the point?
I no ask you where u dey buy from..

greatgod2012:
Misappropriation of the funds they claim is not available!


My only concern is the youths fighting for these politicians who doesn't care about them and their families' existence.

I see no problem with this. Nigerians deserve the leaders they have so let the mismanagement continue.

i can't see my name on the list nah,this is totally unacceptable by me and the people of my state at large.

This is the destroyed country those disgraceful individuals could built. A country that has no functioning infrastructure.

They are disgrace to humanity.

Please let the FG buy them Naija to grow Naija. Innoson comes to mind.

Cadamlk:
I suppose GEJ should appear twice in the picture. He had served on two platforms ,vice president and president .

First time ever I agree with a pro gej post.

If senators collect pension for being former governors and currently enlisted to earn pensions as legislators, then gej should also...

#undressnass

Nigeria is like a script play! nobody know where e wan end

Nigeria is like a script play! nobody know where e wan end
while some are complaining of not being able to find food on their table, some are complaining of no car!

fkj950ax:



First time ever I agree with a pro anti gej post.

If senators collect pension for being former governors and currently enlisted to earn pensions as legislators, then gej should also...

#undressnass

Just trying to be liberal .

monsurufatai:


What's the point?
I no ask you where u dey buy from..

Agulimah:
Mercedes gang... What do they need them for? Waste of funds.


Jonathan suppose receive two cars as per former Vice president and Former President

And Buhari will receive two as former Head of state and president of ZOO.

They can't be buried with these cars...Ile aye Ile asan

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In this recession?
Buhari is truly a dullard.

Caseless:

Exactly my point..

What's with our people and animal rearers leaders..
From a poultry farmer to a zoo keeper and now a cattle rearer

Booharry should go feed cows abeggi..

GabdelandAgro:
Nigeria is not in recession. honestly, they are deceiving others, they cant deceive me

When they said that change begins with us, they also meant that the recession begins with us.
We are doomed if we cannot take our destiny from these agbaya looters

Sweetguy25:
IBB, Gowon, Shonekan, Abdulsami, Diya and Ukiwe don't deserve any payment or pension from the Nigerian government. Nobody voted for them, they either stole power or got there by chance.
It's a shame that nobody is protesting this nonsense. After making Nigeria almost useless Gowon, Buhari and IBB gets rewarded with pensions and exotic cars they don't deserve.
I keep saying that this country is hopeless and I mean it

the country isn't hopeless!!! How can it be when even thje UK doesn't have as much natural resources as we do!!! Its her people that need mental reform,!!! No more no less. If our political class are transferred to the UK , in less than 4 years UK will go broke!!!!

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They said Nigeria is in recession citizens are suffering, hunger and unemployment everyday yet some people are still saying The Daura man is working.
Oh i cry for Nigeria, the rich gets richer and the poor more poorer....
Awarding the rich makes no sense

l was expecting to see the names of Baba Bubu tireless defence zombies team on nairaland for their blind and zombified support ,no matter what..

l am so dissapointed..

Olorun maje ka sise lasan..

Greedy people !

With all the STOLEN wealth of this country they still feed at the breast of Nigeria.

Arrant waste of scarce resources!
Aren't these kleptos on pension?
Rawbishness!!!

Buhari is doing this,so that when he too retired he will able to get his

THIS REALLY TOUCHED ME!

WE ARE ALL COLLECTIVELY GUILTY:_ THE PEOPLE GET THE LEADERSHIP THEY DESERVE!
A Nigerian, a Library, and Lawmakers

By Pius Adesanmi

Recently, I narrated the going-through-thick-and-thin phase of life together in Vancouver, Canada, with my brother from the heartland of Ijesha country, Bayo Emm. The focus of that treatise was how Western Union taught us to be more philosophical about our frequent remittances to Nigeria as diasporans.

We were in our prime as graduate students at the University of British Columbia. We graduated. I took my PhD in French Studies and headed south across the border to teach at Penn State University in the United States. Bayo took his Masters in Library and Archival Studies and headed to Europe, landing at The Hague where he was hired as Archivist and Librarian by the World Court.

At the end of his contract with the World Court, Bayo returned to Canada and joined the Federal civil service. In 2006, I left the United States and returned to Canada, to Ottawa. One year later, Bayo phoned me from Vancouver. He had just been transferred to Ottawa. Our joint Canadian Odyssey in one city was going to continue.

Just shy of two years into his work in a Federal Ministry in Ottawa, Bayo phoned to announce that there was a job opening in Canada’s Parliament and he was going to apply for it.

As it were, Parliament was looking for a senior librarian and archivist. Bayo was sure that having been a librarian at the World Court, he stood a good chance. He was right. The Canadian parliament jumped at his UN resume. That is how a Nigerian came to preside over the organization and acquisition of knowledge by members of parliament in Canada.

Oh boy, did we celebrate that job! Bayo was now in a position where Canada’s Senators and Reps would be consulting him daily for sources and references. For us, this was a biggie. A few months into the job, I started to notice the first signs of discomfort and restlessness in Bayo. As Nigeria always does to her sons and daughters in the diaspora, the inescapable burden of comparison had caught up with Bayo in his new station in life, leaving a terrible taste in his mouth and making it impossible for him to enjoy his new job.

Bayo’s first problem was the ordinariness of power all around him. He would phone me from work, moaning and groaning that nearly 90% of the Senators and Reps took public transport to parliament. In the summer, many rode bicycles or trekked. No airs. No convoys. No expensive SUV purchases every two years, no useless appurtenances of power. His mind would travel to Abuja and picture Nigeria’s Senators and Reps and that would be the end of his happiness for the day.

Then came his job description as librarian and archivist. Lawmakers and their aides trooped daily to the library. He had to organize a daily deluge of research sources and materials for the Lawmakers and their aides. Before every intervention, every speech on the floor of Parliament, a Lawmaker would read and read and read and dig and dig and dig and research and research and research.

Bayo would supply books and files and sources and references, all the while thinking dejectedly about our own indolent and irresponsible Senators and Reps in Nigeria. He would phone me and ruin my day. His agony was always contagious. He would be doing the weeping on Parliament Hill. I would be doing the gnashing of teeth at Carleton University. Two Nigerians united in ibanuje because of the work ethos of Canadian parliamentarians.

The pabambari of it all was when Bayo discovered that every trip to their riding (constituency in Nigeria) was also preceded by a lot of research. Whenever they went back to their ridings to meet and interact with the constituents who voted for them and sent them to Ottawa, they had to be prepared, they had to be armed with research and knowledge for the constituents would expect quality feedback from them. You don’t just jump in your car and go back home to meet with your constituents without being prepared to be grilled in a qualitative manner on your thought, your vision, and your legislative agenda. The people need to know that you are intellectually applied in the manner in which you are representing them.

What Bayo and I were witnessing was a supreme sign of respect for one’s electorate in a democracy. They sent me to Ottawa to work for them in the context of a global knowledge economy and whenever I return home to meet them, I must be prepared to show evidence of constant personal and intellectual development.

Bayo did not stay long on that job. It was too emotionally draining, too psychologically damaging for he could not escape the constant spectre of Nigeria. As I told him, the only way a Nigerian could enjoy such a job was to undergo some form of surgical memory erasure where Nigeria and her politicians and government officials would be forever banished from one’s consciousness. Bayo returned to the civil service and is now a Manager in one of the Ministries – that is what you call Director in Nigeria.

There is of course something they call a library at the National Assembly. It even surprisingly has books in it. However, it is a largely useless space because you do not need a qualitative mind constantly fed and replenished by knowledge to represent Nigerians in a political office. The only purpose of the Library in Nigeria’s National Assembly is that it is a vital source of recurrent expenditure in the annual budget. Since 1999, they have been claiming to be buying books and replenishing that Library. It is a source of stomach infrastructure for them.

Can you close your eyes and picture Dino Melaye in a library, reading, because he needs to be accountable in a cerebral way to his constituents? Can you picture Senator Godswill Akpabio reading a book? Exactly which one of them can you picture within a ten-kilometre radius of knowledge?

I can think only of my friend, Senator Sola Adeyeye but that is because he is a Professor and was a University lecturer in America for years before returning home to contest for office. Sometimes I pity the cerebral Professor Adeyeye because he has to share that space with the imbecilic Dino and his ilk in the majority.

Even the cosmopolitan commonsense Tweetnator from Bayelsa – can you picture him in an atmosphere of research and knowledge acquisition for the sake of his constituents? I can’t. Yet, he is one of the most urbane and sophisticated minds in NASS, despite his warts. Because he does not need to read and research anything for the sake of his constituents, that explains why he rants about issues on Twitter, only to get to the Senate and keep quiet whenever the floor opens for the same issues he rants about. I’ve hardly ever seen or heard him make a qualitative intervention.

Why are your Senators and Reps able to establish an ethos of cerebral emptiness – which has become the standard identity of NASS since 1999? I’m afraid they are only partly to blame. The bulk of the blame falls on you. You are their principal alibi for the way they do things. You are their principal alibi for doing the things they do. The Canadian Lawmaker spends hours preparing for every trip home to meet his constituents because he expects to be grilled in a certain way.

Today is Christmas Eve. Your Senators and Reps are already at home with you in the countryside. How and what did they have to prepare for this trip back home from Abuja? What did they have to prepare to meet you, their constituents? Sacks of rice. Salt. Ororo. Ajinomoto. Lacasera. And lots of envelopes, each containing about ten thousand naira.

The most painful part for me is that you hardly even get to see them on these trips home. You would have to be especially privileged to even make it to their proper living rooms. The way they construct their mansions, there is always that anteroom where they receive you in cohorts. Their domestic staff will serve you rice and drinks while you watch Arsenal versus Chelsea.

Then Madam will come from za oza room in the mansion and greet you all and deliver a little speech on behalf of Chief who is resting upstairs and cannot come and see you. Madam will ask if you need more food and drinks. She will then distribute the envelopes. You will hail and hail and hail and sing and sing and sing. And the next cohort will arrive.

This is the scene that will be enacted ad nauseam in every nook and cranny of Nigeria from today till January 2, 2017. When Madam gives you that envelope and tells you that Chief is sleeping upstairs, do you think it is possible for you as a group to insist on seeing him to ask pertinent questions about his manner of representing you in NASS?

If you see yourself being able to do this and you do it – even if you don’t get the desired answer – then Nigeria has some hope of a mental and b shift in a very distant future.

If all you do is eat rice, take your envelope, hail and leave, then we are doomed. No be so ??