It is most intriguing and provocative that Nigerians refuse to be provoked for all their woes! How far can you push a Nigerian before he reacts like an angry lion? Isn't it a ridiculous mockery and insult that Nigerians are the only world citizens that when pushed to the wall, spend more energy to break the wall and cross over rather than fight back?
Read
this and let's know who our real enemies and shameless oppressors are -
GOVERNORS, EX-GOVERNORS, SENATORS, REPS. Can't we do something to get rid of
these big thieves that use our power against us?ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! NIGERIANS WAKE UP!
A lion never shies away from a fight when it is hungry, neither does it blame the buffalo for resisting or refusing to be eaten. How come our forefathers dared death and everything to give us a sane society?
Twenty-one senators currently receiving pensions from government
as ex-governors and deputy governors. The current senators who once served as
governors are Bukola Saraki of Kwara, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano, Kabiru Gaya
of Kano, Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, Theodore Orji of Abia, Abdullahi Adamu
of Nasarawa, Sam Egwu of Ebonyi, Shaaba Lafiagi of Kwara, Joshua Dariye of
Plateau Jonah Jang of Plateau, Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko of Sokoto, Ahmed Sani
Yarima of Zamfara, Danjuma Goje of Gombe, Bukar Abba Ibrahim of Yobe, Adamu
Aliero of Kebbi, George Akume of Benue and Isiaka Adeleke of Osun.
The former deputy governors in the Senate are Ms Biodun Olujimi
of Ekiti and Enyinaya Harcourt Abaribe of Abia. Danladi Abubakar Sani served as
the acting governor of Taraba State. Many former governors are also in Buhari's
Cabinet as Ministers. This includes: Ngige, Fayemi, Amaechi and Fashola (SAN).
In Akwa Ibom State, the law provides that ex governors and
deputy governors receive pension equivalent to the salaries of the incumbent.
The package also includes a new official car and a utility vehicle every four
years; one personal aide; a cook, chauffeurs and security guards for the
governor at a sum not exceeding N5 million per month and N2.5 million for his
deputy governor.
In Rivers, the law provides 100 percent of annual basic salaries
for the ex-governor and deputy, one residential house for the former governor
“anywhere of his choice in Nigeria”; one residential house anywhere in Rivers
for the deputy, three cars for the ex-governor every four years and two cars
for the deputy every four years.
It is alleged that in Lagos, a former governor will get two
houses, one in Lagos and another in Abuja, estimated at N500 million in Lagos
and N700 million in Abuja. He also receives six new cars to be replaced every
three years; a furniture allowance of 300 percent of annual salary to be paid
every two years, and a N30 million pension annually for life.
This is the reality for all the 21 ex governors and deputy
governors who are currently serving as senators. This same is also true of ex
governors who are now serving as Ministers.
NOW I ASK:
How many years did these guys serve their states as governors and deputy governors? Is it more than 8years? Is that a reason to be entitled to pensions for life? Even if they are entitled to pension for life, must it be so outrageous?
As if that is not enough: HOW on earth can any public servant
with conscience collect salaries and allowances as a senator or minister, and
still have the audacity to claim pensions equivalent to the salaries of a
serving governor in Nigeria?
IT ISN'T ROCKET SCIENCE......
Once you are elected a senator or appointed a minister, you must
forfeit any pension accruing to you from government at any level until you vacate
office. This should also apply to senators collecting military pensions like
former Senate President David Mark.
Yet these senators are in the Senate that is inviting the
current finance minister to discuss the recession of Nigeria's economy. A
senator pockets approximately 30 million naira monthly as salary and
allowances. Our "honourables" are not interested to make laws that
could restructure our country into economically autonomous federating
States/Regions to save the country from sectional agitations that is
threatening to destroy Nigeria. The sad and hopeless situation is that the rest
of Nigerians are busy arguing based on party, ethnic and affiliations while
these enemies of state continue to rape us.
Do you know that it costs tax payers 290m Naira yearly to
maintain each member of our National Assembly in a country where nothing works
& 80% of population earn below 300 Naira a day? A working day earning of a
senator is more than a yearly income of a doctor; it's more than the salary of
42 Army generals or 48 professors or 70 commissioners of police or more than
twice the pay of the US President or 9 times the salary of US congressmen.
It's high time the country had a referendum on those outrageous
salaries of Senators, House of Representative members and other political
office holders.
We should be serious against the open looting of our commonwealth in Nigeria, in the name of democracy.
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