Leadership decay

When Nigerians are dying of hunger and of diseases and of banditry, when the value of naira is bafflingly sinking deeper and becoming useless against the dollar, our Senators do not have time to think about how to make lives easier for the Nigerians, they do think of their roles as the arm of government that are expected to be closer to the people, they have been raising their voices to justify the purchase of expensive SUVs for themselves.

The shock and shame that came with this condescension of the sensitivity of the common Nigerians is heavy to bear. That the people voted to checkmate the excesses of the Executive are the ones who have stooped so low to compare themselves with the lavish spending of the ministers as an excuse to also buy vehicles for themselves at exorbitant rates, as though they transport themselves to the chamber by foot.

Those are people who are supposed to stop or question the dubious spending of the ministers. But they have seen saying they needed better cars because the Nigerian roads are so bad that they require stronger ones. There was no remark about how to make Nigerian roads better so they don’t need to use SUVs when they decide to visit their villages.

“If I go home to my senatorial district, I return spending a lot on my vehicles because our roads are bad. Am I talking to somebody? I said our decision on using Land Cruisers is for the durability.”

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Senate Duties shamelessly said that. I’m not lying.

He didn’t stop there. He added: “If you go to state houses of assembly today, check out, most of them before they were even inaugurated, the governor would have bought vehicles waiting for them, even for local government chairmen. I drove the vehicle my local government chairman uses, so why not the National Assembly?”

I don’t even know when we reached this level that these people don’t even care about what they say in public.

The committee chairman audaciously and thoughtlessly compared the Senators with the state legislators, down to the local government chairmen. I was waiting for him to compare himself with ward councilors but don’t know what stopped him.

He said if governors buy cars for state lawmakers a local government chairmen, cars should also be bought for him and his colleagues. Because they are co-wives