By Political Animal.
A sitting Senator (name withheld) in a conversation said “let me tell you,the senate corrupts even the best of us.Look at me ,I virtually do nothing but I am earning these …millions in a month.
I almost fainted when he said that.
A nation that spends N1.41b on only 109 people per month must be the most crazy nation in the world.Approximately N17b in a year.This means that close to 5% of the annual budget goes into the pockets of less than 1% of the population.
Listen to him:”It’s a cult,where they inject evil viruses of corruption and do nothing into some senators who meant well but in the minority.If you don’t play ball you will be hit, if you decide to leave you get into bigger trouble”.
The Governor turned Senator in question, had a good tenure in his home state for eight years.He did everything to bring education to his people.He tried his best to change his people’s perception on education.He unlocked some of the potentials of some youths in his state.
Immediately he became elected as a senator, he became a total shadow of himself.That was the reason that made him believe that the Senate corrupts the best of them.
A-times,when we talk about our constitution as the problem,I really don’t understand.
Disagreeable incidents in the life of a nation, between constituent groups, should actually produce good laws from good legislators, we have had dozens of them and still having everyday,but that is not the case with our lawmakers.
The legislature is meant for the best of us, intellectually and morally.It should attract the bastion of representative democracy with people-centric ideas with good legislation holding sway.
Unfortunately,people lose their consciences when they become legislators because of money.
It is unfortunate that the Nigerian elite who are supposed to be the custodian of the law of reason are operating in their own world in Nigeria, where they believe that stacks of money can buy anyone.So why make laws for good governance?.
They can only be shocked when they put money on the table, and impoverished Nigerians fail to scramble for it.I pray that such a day should come.
They are already stockpiling money to buy you outrightly come 2023.Some are even using money to buy violence during campaigns.It may not be forever.
I want to assure them that very soon, as they are using money to procure violence all over the place ,it may get to a point where money may no longer quench the violence.
We shall continue to speak the truth.We don’t need to gather money to speak the truth.
Only a few greedy people think of their stomachs before fighting for injustice by accepting brown envelopes.May God help them to see a bigger picture.
If they see the bigger picture ,they will find out that fighting against injustice in the land is fighting the enemies of your stomach in the future.Which is better than temporary gratification.
I believe that this era will soon end , because many of us who are demanding for a working country are silently growing stronger .
I know a man who was in the green Chambers in the early 2000s.He never went back after his tenure of 4 years .We still have a few with their consciences , though maybe few.
He never went back according to him ,not because his party did not give him the chance but because according to him,he was always angry Everytime he listened to his colleagues on the floor .
He said that ,at a time he felt like strapping a bomb to his body and blowing them all up with Himself.
I silently thought within me that the man could have been a legend of our time and emancipator if he did blow himself up with the rest , may be our situation would have improved.That would have been his best sacrifice for the nation.
You can imagine how his voice was always muffled whenever he tried to push for a change among the herd of backward thinkers.
Honestly he could have blown himself up with the rest and become a hero and comfortably made Guinness book of record.
Sometimes I watch television interviews and see some of these people ventilate inanities.
I want to get up and slap sense back into their head ,then I now remember what the grace of God must have done in my life.
More especially I may be breaking the screen of my television set without their knowledge.
For the information of those who don’t know, Nigeria had had responsible legislators in the sixties.You cannot listen to persons like Jaja Nwachukwu share a debate floor with other intellectuals and listen to today’s ” yes men” and not feel the way that I feel right away.
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