Lawmakers in the Green Chamber have started taking delivery of their Sports Utility Vehicles, Sunday PUNCH has learnt.

Similarly, legislators in the Red Chamber will receive the first batch of the SUVs this week.

It was also gathered that the last tranche of the SUVs for use by the lawmakers would arrive before December.

The PUNCH reported that the leadership of the National Assembly had announced the decision to purchase imported SUVs for each lawmaker and bulletproof vehicles for the principal officers.

The move has generated heavy criticism, with some citizens lampooning the parliamentarians for being insensitive to the plight of Nigerians amid the high cost of living.

The Human Rights Writers Association earlier criticised the move, stating that procuring SUVs for federal lawmakers was provocative at a time when most families could barely feed their members three square meals per day, and hospitals and roads were collapsing rapidly across the country.

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project asked the Federal High Court in Lagos to stop the National Assembly from procuring and taking delivery of exotic and bulletproof cars for members and principal officials pending the hearing and determination of the applications for injunction filed by the organisation.

But the Senate defended the purchase of the SUVs, saying lawmakers needed the vehicles for their operations.

The spokesperson for the House of Representatives, Akin Rotimi, told our correspondent that members of the House had started taking delivery of the vehicles.

He also noted that priority was given to female lawmakers and people with disabilities, and much emphasis was laid on people without pending court cases.

Rotimi said, “Some members have started taking delivery of their vehicles. Priority was given to women in the parliament, people with any form of disability and the elderly.

“The management has also ensured that only members who have been fully disposed of their court cases will be given the vehicles to avoid problems.”

Corroborating this, a member of the Green Chamber, who pleaded anonymity, noted that the management was very keen on members justifying the use of the vehicle for their legislative operations.

The source noted that the management had issued a circular to members not to sell any of the vehicles, stating clearly that it was the property of the National Assembly.

The source said, “This particular Assembly is very particular about things being done right. In previous assemblies, people would collect their vehicles and sell them off, but the Speaker has put his foot down against such.

“The spokesperson was mandated to issue a statement internally to members and ensure that no member must sell their vehicles as they are National Assembly property.

“Beyond the circular, the management is seriously following up, particularly to justify the purchase, because the vehicles were bought to give lawmakers a level of autonomy from the executive.”

According to top-level sources, the vehicles will arrive in three batches for the use of the committee chairmen and members.

Another source stated that although the vehicles had generated a lot of controversy and public discussions, they were to aid the lawmakers in performing their duties.

Source: https://punchng.com/N160bn-SUVs-Reps-take-delivery-senators-await-luxury-jeeps-this-week

The greed of the average Nigerian poliitican continues to shine through, even more surprisingly those of LP lawmakers that were supposed to be the defining example for a new democracy. I have no hesitation in saying that, had the outcome of the presidential elections swung Obi's way, we will not have seen a difference. Lawmakers will still award fat salaries and luxurious gifts to themselves, while the sitting president, Obi, watches in compliance. What can he do? Absolutely nothing. The rot is so deep it will take years and years to clean. That's certain, and even an Obi can barely show any determination to clean it.

Nigerian is on an irreparable course to self-destruct based on the current actions of its political class. Evidence of that has already started showing in the short term. In the long term, the result is eventual economic and political tsunamis with no parallel.

Normal


You can imagine that the so called saint LP have quietly collected theirs without noise and you will think APC/PDP is the problem

Of course.
That’s why they fight tooth and nail to climb up that political ladder. Nothing else.
The masses?
What masses??

Be rest assured Ministers and Aides will get theirs too, albeit codedly.

In the face of unprecedented hardship and poverty, Agbadorians who live in batcher houses and cannot afford one meal in a day would tell you;

*Let us join hands and pray and support this government.
*Now that Tinubu has won, let us wish the government well.
*Let us tighten our belt, it's not the fault of this present government.
*Giive the government a chance, they need time to fix the country.

Na wah o.

[color=#006600][/color]160M, one car and when is time for campaign you will be seeing posters like"SELFLESS SERVICE"
Where is the selfless service? And all of them has exotic cars and you won't see any of them that can take a bold step of selling this car empower 160 people in his/her constituent with 1M each

And the government is flogging the citizens with tough economic policies for lack of forex.

On the other hand, the government is spending same forex on luxuries

This is Nigeria for you, a country where a whole community is given a half bag of rice as palliative and the Senators are sharing exotic cars. Nigerians are the most gullible people in the world.

These people don't rate us at all.
Not even a little..

They don't care about us at-all.


..
The small IREV which the public used in February to put small fear inside these crazy politicians, na-im the Supreme Court just crippled.

Just how the country is programed 2 be..

Yet they can't increase minimum wage?

Legislooters them

The executhieves and the legitlooters are not riding SUVs but:
They are riding the masses.
They are kneeling on the masses
They are suffocating the masses.
They are skinning the masses and yet they keep saying they serving the masses

"Use Nigerian product to improve the naira. It is because we are buying imported products that is why our naira is losing value."

These are the words of the same people that have gone out to buy Toyota products, and left Innoson and Nord.

Innoson and Nord are Nigerian Products, but our so called leaders are going to spend 160 billion naira for a foreign product..

People are suffering to eat and live and these people are spending 160 billion naira on cars as if they didn't have cars before they got to power.

These people are heartless. Very very heartless.

The 160 billion naira can go into a specific project for people to have quality lives. They don't need to send the money to anyone. Build a refinery, construct things.

Open a market/industry to provide jobs for the Youths.


And you know the funniest thing? The new set of senators and Reps from the party of the youth (LP) will collect the car too. They have not come out to talk. They have not come out to give press conference. They have not done anything to castigate this act.

They have let it slide. But trust me. They will suffer from the works of their hands.

All the people fighting each other, all of una wey carry tribalism and religious divide for head, all of una wey dey support politicians and this wicked Government.

WHERE IS YOUR OWN CAR? WHAT PLANS DO THEY HAVE FOR YOU THE MUMU MASSES OF NIGERIA?

They told you the country is broke, they told you subsidy is corruption. Instead of weeding away the corruption.
This is how they are spending the subsidy money, while you are told to bear the brunt and continue to suffer

Until you realize they got no plans for you, until you realize they careless about you, you will never understand my post.

Happy Sunday.

Yet we are broke...Broke kor broke ni...

Nigerians have not learnt, when I tell them our common enemy is the political class, if you like fight each other over ethnic and religious affiliation The only government I will ever take serious is the one that deliberately cuts cost of governance. Why should a senator earn more than a school principal? Since they claim they are already rich and only wants to serve the people, they should not take salaries, allowances nor any other privileges that's the only time I can take them serious!

Nigeria has one too many problems to be addressed.

Meanwhile the citizens are asked to tighten their belts

Nigerians will never learn! Our common enemy is the political class, until we can mobilize and fight! A slave who refused to revolt does not deserve freedom!

I Thank God I dont earn in naira.Nigeria is a very insensitive country. Masses dey suffer,dem dey buy exotic cars.mtcheewww

NuCypher:
The greed of the average Nigerian poliitican continues to shine through, even more surprisingly those of LP lawmakers that were supposed to be the defining example for a new democracy. I have no hesitation in saying that, had the outcome of the presidential elections swung Obi's way, we will not have seen a difference. Lawmakers will still award fat salaries and luxurious gifts to themselves, while the sitting president, Obi, watches in compliance. What can he do? Absolutely nothing. The rot is so deep it will take years and years to clean. That's certain, and even an Obi can barely show any determination to clean it.

Nigerian is on an irreparable course to self-destruct based on the current actions of its political class. Evidence of that has already started showing in the short term. In the long term, the result is eventual economic and political tsunamis with no parallel.

Obi is not your president..

Lol

Our mumu too much

tunwumi:
Normal


You can imagine that the so called saint LP have quietly collected theirs without noise and you will think APC/PDP is the problem

Party is not the problem you and your likes are the problem
Go collect your own na abi na still nothing for you .
Dry mouth .

k