More storm of protests by Nigerians in public and private places about the perceived greed of their representatives in the National Assembly continues to gather momentum and has moved online.
Following today’s story in one of the dailies, titled “Nigerians in quiet revolution against expensive, crippling National Assembly” we have been receiving angry protests and criticisms online, by text messages and voice calls, about the conduct of the legislators.
The story points out that Nigerians are beginning to make sense of the colossal amount of money that is being expended on the upper and lower chambers of the National Assembly, where senators and members of the House of Representatives reportedly take home up to N351 million and N147 million per person, respectively.
The following are some of the views expressed online by Nigerians.
The groundswell of discussion among them is centering on the huge cost of running a democracy that is adding no real value to their lives, yet enriching the assemblymen beyond imaginable and acceptable proportion.
They are beginning to make sense of the colossal amount of money that is being expended on the upper and lower chambers of the National Assembly, where senators and members of the House of Representatives reportedly take home up to N351 million and N147 million per person respectively. Overall, the National Assembly is projected to cost a whooping N138 billion, according to the 2010 budget.
But with the budget already passed and signed into law, senators and House members began fresh moves to push quarterly allowances to N100 million and N45 million per person respectively.
It is now understood that the assemblymen and women have settled for N60 million and N45 million per senator and House member respectively. It is this that is particularly seen as unwholesome and as sign of the disconnection with the larger Nigerian public. And protesting Nigerians are irked because tens of millions of them have to daily do the grind to make ends meet.
Following today’s story in one of the dailies, titled “Nigerians in quiet revolution against expensive, crippling National Assembly” we have been receiving angry protests and criticisms online, by text messages and voice calls, about the conduct of the legislators.
The story points out that Nigerians are beginning to make sense of the colossal amount of money that is being expended on the upper and lower chambers of the National Assembly, where senators and members of the House of Representatives reportedly take home up to N351 million and N147 million per person, respectively.
The following are some of the views expressed online by Nigerians.
- Who needs a quiet revolution? Well that is unAfrican. We must resisit these wicked senators and representatives by stoning them whereever we can find them. It's time for a Ghana style revolution, not something from Oyinboland. Let our stones speak out now.
- God will punish you people and your family for turning nigerian into suffrage
- The country is already bankrupt and these thieves want to milk the country dry. We need revolution now.
- Where is the Save Nigeria Group? This is another cause to fight. We cannot sit down and let this happen. We need to take the fight to them in Abuja.
- Who voted these prodigal sons? We did. For what? Little cash they gave out during campaign. Then why are we making noise? We need to check our hearts and vote for credible leaders come 2011. Let the revolution start now!!!
- We need a five million- man march to the NASS in Abuja. Its time we all started to take visible action, instead of just talking. This is the time for NLC, NGO's, NBA, etc to organise a march to Abuja. When they are supposed to act they wont, but they begin talk of strike on policy issues like privitisation.
- These legislators are babarians.
- These criminals are in a race to destroy this conutry. Only Nigerians could stop them.We need both quiet and non quiet revolution to disarm them. They should all be forced to vomit these outrageous salaries. These are not salaries but warfare against the nation called Nigeria
- Stone the legislators
They are beginning to make sense of the colossal amount of money that is being expended on the upper and lower chambers of the National Assembly, where senators and members of the House of Representatives reportedly take home up to N351 million and N147 million per person respectively. Overall, the National Assembly is projected to cost a whooping N138 billion, according to the 2010 budget.
But with the budget already passed and signed into law, senators and House members began fresh moves to push quarterly allowances to N100 million and N45 million per person respectively.
It is now understood that the assemblymen and women have settled for N60 million and N45 million per senator and House member respectively. It is this that is particularly seen as unwholesome and as sign of the disconnection with the larger Nigerian public. And protesting Nigerians are irked because tens of millions of them have to daily do the grind to make ends meet.
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