ABUJA (Sundiata Post) They could afford to whittle down budget allocations for other projects, but it never occurred to them to reduce their own allocation to reflect our economic reality. Instead, they increased their allocation from N125 billion to N139.5 billion. In a country of 170 million citizens, majority of them buffeted by crushing poverty, how can you justify fewer than five hundred lawmakers guzzling N139.5 off the national budget? You can’t be serving the people by extorting them! Many elected officials are just pretending to be on the change train, but their hearts are not in the mission. As we criticise the executive branch of government when it goes wrong, we should not spare the legislators either if they reduce governance to the pursuit of greed and egregious selfishness
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