Behaviours of public servants in Nigeria are just out of the sphere of sanity.
Subsidising fuel in Nigeria is subsidising evil. It is aiding the lifestyles of opulent men. Between 2006 and 2011; a whooping sum of N3.7tn was spent on subsidy. In 2011 alone; sum of N1.7tn was spent- this was 30 per cent of government expenditure. Who benefits more from subsidy? Rich people who use fuel more. They consume 97 per cent of petrol. Poorest 40 per cent consume only three per cent. Illegal bunkering criminals who divert crude to neighbouring countries benefited.
The cost of running democracy must be pruned down. Running the government across the board in Nigeria at the present frenzy and addictive speed is an unsustainable wild waste. The drainpipe funneling Nigeria’s hard-earned funds into multitude of bottomless pits and private pockets of politicians in cahoots with their colluding businessmen must be plugged.
An organisation with high overheads needs a high contribution margin to break even. Let’s start from our legislature. A constitutional stipulation that states Nigeria must have 109 senators and 360 members of the House of Representatives already sets the system to go bankrupt. What are these guys doing for God’s sake? Their modus operandi is to squeeze pint-by-pint the precious blood of an already anemic Giant of Africa.
109 senators coast home a whopping sum of remuneration monthly for doing not much. They slumber off and fool around in the chamber. They pass no legislation that brings succour to the suffering masses; and many times, they are no-show for work as often as Nigerian workers do because of the rules of the house abused by not a few.
In the 2023 budget, 469 legislators, the civil servants and the two agencies under the National Assembly, will gulp N228bn as running cost in only 12 months. Senators packing their bags and heading home were each receiving N14.5m monthly as running cost. Members of the House of Representatives each get N10.2m monthly as running costs. There are other hidden costs that have not been revealed.
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