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The Senate on Tuesday admitted that it bought a bullet proof Range Rover Sports Utility Vehicle ( SUV ) as had been reported in the media.

Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Publicity Sen. Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi told newsmen in Abuja that indeed the senate procured the said vehicle but not at the price that was being reported.

Sabi said that the vehicle cost was procured at $298,000 (N49.1 million) and not N298, million as was being reported in the media.

According to the spokesperson of the Senate, the vehicle was procured in 2015 for $298 at an exchange rate of N165 to a dollar.

“Our attention has been drawn to the various false and mischievous reports in the media about the price of the vehicle which the Senate was said to have bought as part of its convoy but was later abandoned when it got impounded by the Customs over controversy surrounding import duty payment.

“The correct price of the vehicle when it was imported in 2015 is $298,000 which at the prevailing rate of N165 to a dollar is about N49, 170.

“The Senate paid N62.5m for the vehicle in November 2015. This is contrary to the mischief by those who decided to turn the $298,000 to N298 million as the price of the vehicle.

“For the avoidance of doubt, the price the Senate paid for that vehicle is N62.5m and not N298 million.

“The Senate will appreciate it if all reports relating to the legislative institution, particularly on this vehicle matter, are reported with accuracy and all facts put in proper perspective.

“We urge journalists to avoid sensationalism. The Senate is a responsible institution and those who believe that when they have issues to explain before it, the next thing to do is to resort to falsehood, blackmail, muck-raking and mud-slinging, should know that they are just overheating the polity and undermining our democratic institution.

“Finally, the Senate wish to reiterate our total commitment to upholding the rule of law and to work for Nigerians, in accordance with our constitution,” he said.

The Senate had been in the eye of the storm over its probe of the activities of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) with media reports alleging that the upper legislative chamber was on a revenge mission.

Media reports alleged that attention of the Senate on the NSC was due to the fact that the service impounded an SUV allegedly procured by the President of the Senate Bukola Saraki.

The report said that the service refused to bulge in spite of the intervention of the Senate to release the SUV.

Meanwhile, at an investigative hearing by the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions, the importer of the vehicle absolved Saraki of any complicity in the importation.

The President of the Senate who also appeared before the committee stressed that he did not import any vehicle and does not own the vehicle that was purportedly seized.

He urged that the Senate as an institution must be strengthened so as to save the nation’s democracy.

http://www.metronaija.com/2017/03/senate-admits-buying-bullet-proof-suv.html

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U-Turn

criminals everywhere

i think i'll side with the senate with this one.

How much was paid as duty?

You could not have bought that vehicle for N62.5m. Tell that to KG 2 pupils.

The car is an armoured Range Rover 2017 for goodness sake The estimated value on the net is $447,000. Even at N300/$ that is N137m.

papparatzzi2013:
How much was paid as duty?

You could not have bought that vehicle for N62.5m. Tell that to KG 2 pupils.

The car is an armoured Range Rover 2017 for goodness sake,

How can it be 2017 when it was bought in 2015 and if it was bought in 2015 why did it arrive Nigeria in 2017 ..very confusing

SalamRushdie:
How can it be 2017 when it was bought in 2015 and if it was bought in 2015 why did it arrive Nigeria in 2017 ..very confusing

Such cars are usually pre-ordered. We are not talking of Peugeot or Kia here.

Senate bought range Rover 2017 model in 2015.How come?So Senate got dollar at a subsidize rate of #165 to $1 while manufacturers are ask to go to blackmarket to source for it at #500 to $1? Funny.

papparatzzi2013:
How much was paid as duty?

You could not have bought that vehicle for N62.5m. Tell that to KG 2 pupils.

The car is an armoured Range Rover 2017 for goodness sake The estimated value on the net is $447,000. Even at N300/$ that is N137m.

Don't mind them. They think all of us are gullible

You want to ride in a #137m SUV while the people paying the money can't have 3 square meal, no good roads, no water, no security, husbands dying because they are facing bullets everyday in sambisa forest and beyond, suicide rate are on the rise due to the economy and you will go to church or mosque to say you are serving a God?

No conscience or fear of God at all

Have you against corruption before? why the announcement?

zinachidi:
i think i'll side with the senate with this one.

muykem:
Have you against corruption before? why the announcement?

have u seen me side with corruption before?

decatalyst:
Don't mind them. They think all of us are gullible

You want to ride in a #137m SUV while the people paying the money can't have 3 square meal, no good roads, no water, no security, husbands dying because they are facing bullets everyday in sambisa forest and beyond, suicide rate are on the rise due to the economy and you will go to church or mosque to say you are serving a God?

No conscience or fear of God at all

Ride in it? Pls read again. It is just another car in the convoy of the senate president.

agabusta:
Ride in it? Pls read again. It is just another car in the convoy of the senate president.

Jesu!


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