Quote of the day...

 

"Who are the Nigerians that are worried? It is you media people who are worried. I can take you to my village in Song, you will see that they are not worried. So, people should stop this nonsense of talking about allowances and how much the members are getting.

This is moreso because when you investigate, it is not true. People are not able to look at the big picture. They only look at the small thing, sensationalize it and use it to abuse very credible and highly responsible Nigerians just because they are lawmakers. Four million naira a month is nonsense. You see, since I said it in the Senate, I will repeat myself here. There is a war against the legislature by interested people; principally, governors. And they have corralled a lot of troops from media people, political commentators and others to fight us. In doing this, they use all sorts of names on us. Where do we have this kind of money? Do we print money? Is the treasury in the National Assembly? How could the National Assembly have so much access to money? Every kobo we spend in the National Assembly comes from the Executive. They talk as if we have got some kind of machine guns and we go round taking government money. How do we do it? Can anyone tell us?” - Senator Jibril Aminu to the press

This is what he's defending...  “Do you know it costs tax payers N290 million Naira yearly to maintain each member of our National Assembly in a country where nothing works and 80% of our population earn below N300 Naira a day. A Senator's daily earning is more than annual pay of a doctor,.. more than the salary of 42 Army genarals or 48 professors or 70 commissiones of police, more than twice the pay of the US President, nine times the salary of US congressmen. Please, lets say NO to looting of Nigeria in the name of democracy by sending this as text messages to at least 5 others.” - Business Day.