appear only concerned about how to live comfortably in Abuja, in what ought to be a season of belt-tightening. They have approved for themselves a staggering N110 billion for this purpose, from the N819.5 billion Supplementary Appropriation they recently considered, out of which N500 billion has been earmarked for the so-called palliatives for the generality of needy Nigerian.
Senator Adams Oshiomhole, a former governor of Edo State, inadvertently hinted at what the N70 billion will be used for, when he revealed in a television programme that members of the erstwhile Ninth assembly vandalised office equipment across the legislative chambers, which compelled him and others to improvise in the interim. Television sets, printers, computers, rugs, chairs, were carted away.
New policies of the two-month old Bola Tinubu administration, headlined by petrol subsidy removal and merger of the foreign exchange rates in the official and parallel markets, have aggravated hardship in the land, devalued the naira, and accelerated the annual inflation rate to 22.79%, considered as the highest since 2005. Transport fares have increased stratospherically. As a result, most commuters in the cities trek and feel exhausted to their marrows. Food inflation was 24.
Avarice and insensitivity have no place in public service. The legislators should not be oblivious of this imperative. In other jurisdictions, this is the norm. Therefore, we urge National Assembly members to borrow a leaf from the book of their counterparts elsewhere. For instance, a few months ago, a video that went viral showed a Gambian female legislator, Touma Njie, deprecating, in the strongest of terms, a budgetary proposal to increase the salaries of lawmakers in 2023.
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