The Senate on Wednesday said Nigerians
condemning the planned purchase of Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) amounting to N5.5 billion for the senators, were insulting the upper chamber of the National Assembly.
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The Leader of the Senate, Yahaya Abdullahi, who stated this in an interview with journalists in his office in Abuja, added that the status of a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria was not undeserving of a SUV.
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According to the Punch, the Senate Leader said each of the 109 senators in the upper chamber would get one SUV which would be paid for at the end of their four-year legislative tenure.
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He said the burden on the shoulder of the Senator was not a small task and that a sport utility vehicle for their work was not too much.
Senator Abdullahi said; “What is the problem there? It is an insult to say that a Senator of the Federal Republic cannot ride a jeep in Nigeria. It is an insult.
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“The N5.5bn is from the National Assembly fund and it is budgeted for every year which they will pay back at the end of the tenure.
“I was a permanent secretary. I know what ministers get, we cannot even compare ourselves to ministers because we are higher than the minister.
“For you to say that a Senator of the Federal Republic cannot drive a jeep today, come on, that is an insult.
“Go and tell the people that the work that we do, is more than the work of ministers.
“The weight that is on me today, there is no minister of the Federal Republic that has it,” he stated.
