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The Nigerian Senate has stated why its members deserve brand new Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs).

Public outcry recently greeted a planned purchase of brand new SUVs for Senators which will amount to about N5.5billion.

Reacting to the condemnation, the leader of the Nigerian Senate, Yahaya Abdullahi, said it is an insult to opined that lawmakers at the upper legislative chamber do not deserve brand new SUVs.

Mr Abdullahi said they deserve the automobile because the duties of lawmakers are much more than that of ministers whom he assumed are getting similar benefits.

“What is the problem there? It is an insult to say that a senator of the Federal Republic cannot ride a jeep in Nigeria. It is an insult,” the Senate leader told reporters in his office Wednesday.

“The N5.5 billion is from the National Assembly fund and it is budgeted for every year, which they will pay back at the end of their tenure.

“I was a permanent secretary. I know what ministers get. We cannot even compare ourselves with ministers because we are higher than a minister.

“For you to say that a senator of the Federal Republic cannot drive a jeep today, come on, that is an insult.

“Go and tell the people that the work that we do is more than the work of ministers. The weight that is on me today, there is no minister of the Federal Republic that has it,” he added.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/todaypoliticsng.com/why-our-members-deserve-brand-new-suvs-senate/amp/

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What are you guys saying self?

5.5billion for a car thhey wont use up to 6months and later dump it?

Whereas people out here die of hunger daily and some live on #500 and less daily...

Practically, man has dominated his fellow man to his injury

It is not about whether or not your members deserve brand new SUVs, indeed, you all deserve official jets each. The issue is that 5.5b for just your cars is too much for a country still negotiating 30k minimum wage.

This just proves that members of the Nigerian Senate and indeed the political class are like "men from mars", far detached from reality.
In an attempt to defend their greed and lust for endless wealth, this senator has made reference to "junketing" ministers who travel in convoys of expensive SUV's.
So there seems to be a race to which group of politicians can squander our lean resources the quickest.
How pathetic our situation is.
This shows that there's barely any hope for responsible leadership in the horizon.
Nigeria we hail thee!

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TRIGITIS:
It is not about whether or not your members deserve brand new SUVs, indeed, you all deserve official jets each. The issue is that 5.5b for just your cars is too much for a country still negotiating 30k minimum wage.

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Las Las I wan become senator

TRIGITIS:
It is not about whether or not your members deserve brand new SUVs, indeed, you all deserve official jets each. The issue is that 5.5b for just your cars is too much for a country still negotiating 30k minimum wage.

Let's put some perspective to this..
N5.5 billion is the monthly salary of 180,000 minimum wage earners!
..now tell me, in what way could this expenditure impact the lives of these people?