Oby Ezekwesili has condemned the leadership of the National Assembly for the procurement of 400 new cars for members. In a statement released on Sunday evening by spokesperson for the House of assembly Rotimi Akin who confirmed that NASS had purchased 109 Toyota land Cruisers for Senators and 2023 Toyota Prado for 360 members of the house of Reps. Ezekwesili the former Minister for Education, knocked NASS leadership regarding the purchase and tagged other members of Assembly “heartless” for refusing to speak against expensive procurement.

“You all had the audacity to spend scarce public resources on luxury cars at a time majority of your citizens cannot feed, transport themselves, pay school fees and hospital bills due to the cost of living crisis?

“At this stage, it is evident you want to continue with your serial bad behavior. Since not even 1 of you fellows @nassnigeria @houseNGR @NGRSenate saw the heartlessness of that decision to buy 360 new Toyota SUVs for yourselves at this time of severe economic distress of the citizens and country, please know that you all are the biggest threat to our democracy’’.

Ezekwesili warned the lawmakers that their actions will result in citizens collectively rising up to collectively chase ‘’irresponsible and insensitive people out of office’’.

Responding to critics that she also bought cars while in office, she stated that she never bought vehicles for her personal use but asked her perm sec to repair any vehicle that was left behind by her predecessors for her use and that they should find that out from Dr. Aboki Zawa who worked with her in both Ministries of Minerals and Education.

SOURCE: PUNCH