Your defence of N57b SUV Jeeps for senators utterly disgraceful —Oby Ezekwesili lambasts senators

A former Minister of Education, Obiageli Ezekwesili, has knocked the National Assembly over an attempt to justify the purchase of luxury sport utility vehicles for its members.

Ezekwesili described the defence put up by the legislative arm of the government as an “utterly disgraceful and disgusting act of tone-deafness on display.”

She was reacting to a statement alleged to have been made by Senator Sunday Karimi in defence of the SUVs.

In a post on her social media platform, X, on Friday, she slammed Karimi’s remark that “it is not only lawmakers that are irresponsible. Ministers and Local Government Chairmen all have four to six Landcruisers so you citizens should stop disturbing us, naaa” as annoying.

“Who is this annoyingly vacuous Senator Sunday Karimi @SundayKarimi of the @NGRSenate whose sole argument for wasting public resources to purchase Luxury SUV vehicles for members of the @nassnigeria at this time of National FINANCIAL DISTRESS is, “it is not only lawmakers that are irresponsible. Ministers and Local Government Chairmen all have between four and six Landcruisers so you citizens should stop disturbing us, naaa.

“Utterly disgraceful and disgusting act of tone-deafness on display.

“Let me kindly ask you and your colleagues to please read the following scriptures as wisdom appears to be away from you all on this matter that enrages your citizens: Luke 17:27, Matthew 24:38-39.

“Continue if it pays you but do not say citizens did not help you to act wisely,” she wrote.

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