By ADESOLA AYO-ADERELE
Members of the National Assembly are in a class of their own. The majority of them, even as legacy members (whatever that means), hardly know what their brief is all about.
From the lawmaker that parades his four wives as evidence that he isn’t only active in the NASS but also at the home front, to those of them who use the proceedings to catch up on lost sleep probably due to previous night of reveling, you have it all.
Where Nigerians are not scratching heads to understand why NASS members need outrageously-priced cars to drive on non-roads, they are wondering what their rulers know about national needs —as in the case of the ongoing attempt to revert to the old national anthem.
With this kind of senators, we can only bewail a suffering Motherland.
These are people who will never speak about the corruption that has crippled the nation, or the nagging insecurity that has become a multibillion-naira industry.
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Of course, the egregious economy is a no-go area for them because the only solution they know is to dole out unearned money in the name of palliative, in addition to the fact that since the abject poverty plaguing the land doesn’t affect them, they are too busy to care while plotting their return in the next election cycle.
Listening to the senators’ otiose arguments about the reasons for the nonsensical bill seems to suggest that reverting to the old national anthem is the panacea for our national woes.
With this kind of senators, we can only bewail a suffering Motherland.
