As I watched the
cold grimace of calculating satisfaction which caressed the face of David Mark,
the President of Nigeria Senate, as he presided over the rancorous,
ethnocentric and divisive televised debates on the Petroleum Industry Bill
(PIB), I could not but shudder in astonishment as to the callousness and
criminal-like ingenuity and perfidy of our ruling oligarchs.
Ever since the
debates were televised, public discourse has once more shifted from the
horrendous thievery visited upon Nigeria by the assemblage of characters ruling
over our polity to the factors which continue to separate us – such where
particular thieves hail from – portraying each Senator who contributed to the
debates as an ethnic champion.
Here was the
Nigerian Senate, which would never televise discussions on how it dishes out
perks to its membership amounting into millions of U.S. Dollars per Senator per
annum gleefully stoking the embers of ethnicity and continuing to confound the
populace and ensure their relevance, albeit at the expense of societal
cohesion.
One does not have to
imagine far to envisage the banters that will be freely shared amongst the
Senators, who had been fiercely at each other’s throats during the televised
drama, and will be hugging themselves (behind closed doors) as they celebrate
once more the mesmerization of the hapless Nigerian population.
Let’s restructure
and renegotiate our contraption whilst the sun is yet up.
http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/as-pib-war-gets-messier-exposed/
Picture: Senate President David Mark
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