The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, has described the immediate past government of Dr Goodluck Jonathan as “very corrupt and visionless”.
This was as it threatened to resume hostilities in the nation’s oil rich region as a way of protesting against the huge salaries and allowances of National Assembly members.
Recall that it was widely circulated in the media last week that federal lawmakers have been billed to receive N9 billion as wardrobe allowance this week.
Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki swiftly refuted the report, explaining that each lawmaker would only get a wardrobe allowance of N506, 600 per annum as stipulated by the the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC.
Apparently not satisfied with this clarification, MEND in a statement threatened fire and brimstone through its spokesman, Jomo Gbomo, alleging that “These wicked individuals appropriate to themselves huge and absurd salaries and allowances at the expense of the millions of hapless Nigerians, who have not been paid for months, their salaries, pensions and other benefits they deserve”.
The group further noted that “The Niger Delta region, where the bulk of revenue that sustains the nation comes from, continues to suffer neglect, environmental degradation and lack, made worse by the very corrupt and visionless past government of Goodluck Jonathan and his cronies, some of who still shamelessly parade themselves on national television and other media platforms as ‘Niger Delta Activists’.
“Nigerians refuse to tolerate this ostentatious lifestyle of our lawmakers, whose main objective, it seems, is to enrich themselves and carelessly spend scarce resources. The Niger Delta people refuse to pamper and cater for the needs of these thieving Assembly rogues to their detriment.
“If the lawmakers refuse to make the necessary adjustments needed to accompany the needs of the masses and the Niger Delta region, it may lead to the resumption of hostilities,” Gbomo stated.
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