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Nigerian Senators Still Live In The Stone Age - Ben Bruce by goldcoinhub: 6:16am On May 07, 2019
Senator Ben Murray-Bruce has accused his colleagues in the Senate of rejecting technological advancements, which he considers as a confirmation they are still living in the Stone Age.

The senator representing Bayelsa east, said Nigeria has become the laughing stock in the world because of the “inability of senators to function in the 21st century”.

While speaking with BBC Pidgin, Bruce accused his colleagues of heading towards the opposite direction for rejecting a bill he sponsored on electric cars.

He said:

“Nigeria is really the laughing stock of the world because of my colleagues who cannot function in the 21st century,”

“An electric car is very efficient. Towards your driving, it tells you how many miles you have left. Full charge, about a hundred miles. You see how simple it is? But my colleagues in the senate, who are in the stone age do not understand this.

“Our politicians are moving in the opposite direction. Whether they like it or not, the world will move towards electrical cars. That is the way of the future. Combusting engine cars are inefficient, they kill people. Today, nobody in his right mind will build a factory to make combusting engine cars.

“We will end up being the dumping ground of the world because the world is moving in one direction, the Nigerian senate is moving in the opposite direction. You replace your petrol station with solar powered charging stations. Anytime you wanted to charge your car, you go to the gas station, and you charge your super charge 30 minutes, you get a hundred miles of charge. How many people drive a hundred miles, one (hundred and) fifty kilometers a day?

“Nigeria spends over a trillion naira every year subsidizing petrol. If they listen to me, they will be cautious what we have and what we can benefit from this technology. If they don’t, they will be left behind and Nigeria will be a third world country forever. So they have a choice. Either way, I win, they lose.”

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Re: Nigerian Senators Still Live In The Stone Age - Ben Bruce by babyfaceafrica: 6:20am On May 07, 2019
he is part of the problem

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Re: Nigerian Senators Still Live In The Stone Age - Ben Bruce by helinues: 6:30am On May 07, 2019
Are you not part of them?

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Re: Nigerian Senators Still Live In The Stone Age - Ben Bruce by Miracle4Sure: 6:39am On May 07, 2019
Hmmm
Re: Nigerian Senators Still Live In The Stone Age - Ben Bruce by cinoedhunter: 6:44am On May 07, 2019
Na electric cars this one want now abi angry

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Re: Nigerian Senators Still Live In The Stone Age - Ben Bruce by ablelin: 6:46am On May 07, 2019
Na today, that was a good suggestion from him, even as Nigeria wants to sell it's oil, you shouldn't have pushed away the idea. The electric car is just a bitter truth that must happen. Now justifying it based on the oil we want to sell, what a stinking thought. The world would soon move away from oil, I wonder if you would be drinking it by then. Elect became rocket science they found difficult to achieve. Hardly can any of them switch on a computer not to talk of operating it. Very backward and analog leaders controlling tech savvy population...

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Re: Nigerian Senators Still Live In The Stone Age - Ben Bruce by Lanretoye(m): 6:47am On May 07, 2019
he won't say this at the chambers...useless senator,as if he is living in bread age.

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Re: Nigerian Senators Still Live In The Stone Age - Ben Bruce by matify83: 6:48am On May 07, 2019
What is the genesis of this tirade if I may ask?

Deeper than the rejection of his bill if you peruse his speech carefully.


We don't need a bill to outlaw combustion engine just like it wasn't a bill that relegated the bicycle to the background.

The electric car culture will catch up with us gradually when the merits outweigh the disadvantages.

My common sense contribution!!

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Re: Nigerian Senators Still Live In The Stone Age - Ben Bruce by Wantedmiller: 6:48am On May 07, 2019
Ben Bruce..... let us be sincere to ourselves. There are a lot of things hanging on our shoulders as Nigerians. Right now your electric car bill is not part of it..........Youths dey streets without jobs, People are dying on daily bases, the hospitals, the Roads, the poor are getting poorer etc.
This part of our world can't enjoy stable electricity?

Sen Ben........ World developed countries got their independence so many years ago.... they actually took care of human, made life worth living for them before your yeye Electric car.

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Re: Nigerian Senators Still Live In The Stone Age - Ben Bruce by aolawale025: 6:52am On May 07, 2019
Nigeria has to move with the rest of the world

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Re: Nigerian Senators Still Live In The Stone Age - Ben Bruce by Harrymig1(m): 6:53am On May 07, 2019
He has a very big point. A country as big as Nigeria shouldn't be laggards. Since we cannot lead at the least let's follow.

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Re: Nigerian Senators Still Live In The Stone Age - Ben Bruce by omenkaLives(m): 6:54am On May 07, 2019
Little wonder Bruce Lee behaves like a Neanderthal.

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Re: Nigerian Senators Still Live In The Stone Age - Ben Bruce by daddytime(m): 6:59am On May 07, 2019
Millenium twitter Senator don collect allawee with him fellow stone-age nicompoops begin tell dem waka as him tenure don end.

Very good scammer...

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Re: Nigerian Senators Still Live In The Stone Age - Ben Bruce by fredoooooo: 7:08am On May 07, 2019
Wee you keep quiet Agama Lizard grin

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Re: Nigerian Senators Still Live In The Stone Age - Ben Bruce by Bizibi(m): 7:10am On May 07, 2019
Wait,what have this guy done for the people he represents in the last 4 yrs........

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Re: Nigerian Senators Still Live In The Stone Age - Ben Bruce by mmsen: 7:12am On May 07, 2019
Wantedmiller:
Ben Bruce..... let us be sincere to ourselves. There are a lot of things hanging on our shoulders as Nigerians. Right now your electric car bill is not part of it..........Youths dey streets without jobs, People are dying on daily bases, the hospitals, the Roads, the poor are getting poorer etc.
This part of our world can't enjoy stable electricity?

Sen Ben........ World developed countries got their independence so many years ago.... they actually took care of human, made life worth living for them before your yeye Electric car.

The issue isn't limited to electric cars but the lack of technological savvy amongst the political class as a whole.

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Re: Nigerian Senators Still Live In The Stone Age - Ben Bruce by omoadeleye(m): 7:15am On May 07, 2019
Your colleagues are not dumb or technical illiterate, they are just trying to form clueless because most of them are relying on the oil money, bringing in electric cars will make oil revenue to their pockets fall.

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Re: Nigerian Senators Still Live In The Stone Age - Ben Bruce by jimi4us: 7:20am On May 07, 2019
You mean illiterate Almajiri senators. Who believe it's normal for someone to flog a cow from Sokoto to Lagos by foot.

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Re: Nigerian Senators Still Live In The Stone Age - Ben Bruce by MorufuAtanda: 7:21am On May 07, 2019
Nigeria itself is filled with stone age almajiris and yoromuslim Agberoes who are illiterates.
Re: Nigerian Senators Still Live In The Stone Age - Ben Bruce by ednut1(m): 7:22am On May 07, 2019
U go boys with gen for boot lol
Re: Nigerian Senators Still Live In The Stone Age - Ben Bruce by jimi4us: 7:25am On May 07, 2019
Bizibi:
Wait,what has this guy done for the people he represents in the last 4 yrs........
why don't you take a trip to Bayelsa and see what he has done.
He has a business that employs thousands of people, what has your own sleeping senator done?

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Re: Nigerian Senators Still Live In The Stone Age - Ben Bruce by etrouble: 7:25am On May 07, 2019
Ekeremadu lead the revolt against electric cars. Ekeremadu is still living in stone age. Ekeremadu must be mad,

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Re: Nigerian Senators Still Live In The Stone Age - Ben Bruce by Bizibi(m): 7:29am On May 07, 2019
jimi4us:
why don't you take a trip to Bayelsa and see what he has done.
He has a business that employs thousands of people, what has your own sleeping senator done?
my Senator has done nothing only the one in house of reps.it is not about his business that employs people he is a senator and people would want to know what he has done as a senator.

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Re: Nigerian Senators Still Live In The Stone Age - Ben Bruce by rusher14: 7:29am On May 07, 2019
Ben Bruce is a dunce .

He acts as if he has invested in an electric car company the way he goes about it.

Nigeria does not need to follow the rest of the world into the world of electric vehicles.

We must make.the best of what we have and we'll grow organically.
Re: Nigerian Senators Still Live In The Stone Age - Ben Bruce by Nobody: 7:40am On May 07, 2019
i think we should just leave electric cars for now and focus on more pressing issues...... the country already hav enough problems, and electric cars are the least of them.
Re: Nigerian Senators Still Live In The Stone Age - Ben Bruce by Od1n: 7:40am On May 07, 2019
Wantedmiller:
Ben Bruce..... let us be sincere to ourselves. There are a lot of things hanging on our shoulders as Nigerians. Right now your electric car bill is not part of it..........Youths dey streets without jobs, People are dying on daily bases, the hospitals, the Roads, the poor are getting poorer etc.
This part of our world can't enjoy stable electricity?

Sen Ben........ World developed countries got their independence so many years ago.... they actually took care of human, made life worth living for them before your yeye Electric car.

You'd rather they use these funds for fake fuel subsidy? Same fuel you buy for N150 despite being a producing state. Later you will come out and say sun is too much. The ozone layer is near gone. Soonest, Fuel-based engines will become a thing of the past. Where will we be?

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