Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo said members of the Senate and the House of Representatives in Nigeria are a bunch of unarmed robbers, milking the country dry despite widespread poverty in the land. The former President made the statement in Ibadan at a public presentation of a book written by Prof. Mark Nwagwu titled ‘I am Kagara, I Weave the Sands of Sahara’.
Obasanjo lamented that members of the National Assembly were the highest paid lawmakers in the world stressing that if nothing was done to address the problem, many Nigerians would remain in abject poverty.
According to hiM, "the way we are going about spending all our revenue to pay overheads, we will not develop. And we will have ourselves to blame. Ninety per cent of revenue is used to pay overheads, allowances, salaries and not much is left for capital development. In a situation like that, we have to rethink"
“It is even worse for the National Assembly. They will abuse me again but I will never stop talking about them. They are a bunch of unarmed robbers. They are one of the highest paid in the world where we have 75 per cent of our people living in abject poverty. They will abuse me tomorrow and if they don’t, maybe they are sleeping. The behaviour and character of the National Assembly should be condemned and roundly condemned” he added.
They will abuse me tomorrow and if they don’t, maybe they are sleeping. The behaviour and character of the National Assembly should be condemned and roundly condemned” he added.
