TUNDE BAKARE
The Convener of the Save Nigeria Group, Pastor Tunde Bakare, spoke to Abimbola Adelakun on the raging issue of Jumbo pay by legislators and whether Nigerians are well represented at all. Do you think we are getting quality representation from our legislators?
It is my considered opinion, having looked at all the circumstances, that the parliamentarians, if I may call them that, are not representing their communities at the parliament. Instead, they are representing the parliament at their communities with their over inflated lifestyle because they go back to the community to show others how successful they have become even though some of them were broke before they got there. So, don‘t even think of them representing us. No, they are representing the parliament to the rest of us; to see why power is sweet and why others should seek power in debased government to partake in the sharing of the national cake as it were.
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