The Deputy President of the Senate, Chief Ike Ekweremadu has described the provision made for the purchase of vehicles for Senate committees as “a necessary expenditure.”
He explained that the huge cost of procuring the vehicles for the lawmakers was as a result of the prevailing exchange rate of the Naira against the United States’ Dollar.
Speaking in Umunumo, Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State, the Deputy Senate President noted that, “It is an indisputable fact that the exchange rate for the dollar has hit the skies in these days and age and this has adversely affected every other commodity in the country.”
While attributing the high cost of the purchase of vehicles for the Senate committees’ assignment to increase in exchange rate, Chief Ekweremadu opined that it was not unusual for Nigerians to blame the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the outcome of what they saw as abnormal.
“It is not a crime to buy vehicles for the use of Senate committees. This would enable members of the various committees to carry out their assignments without hitches,” he stated.
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