Jumbo Pay: Our Lawmakers Are Unarmed Robbers – Obasanjo

Previous President Olusegun Obasanjo Thursday in Ibadan portrayed individuals from the National Assembly as a "bundle of unarmed looters", over their enormous pay rates and stipends.

Obasanjo, who hit hard at the National administrators, said the present officials are one of the most generously compensated legislators on the planet, regardless of the way that an expected 75 percent of Nigerian people live in neediness.

He included that the arm of government ought to be entirely censured.

The previous president talked at the book introduction of Prof. Check Nwagwu entitled: "I am Kagara, I Weave the Sands of Sahara".

The occasion, which held at the University of Ibadan, had Obasanjo as the Chief Host while the previous Minister of Education, Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili led the event.

Focusing on that he is expecting another round of bashing from the government legislators, the previous President said he would keep on lambasting them for constituting a gigantic level of the country's overhead cost.

He bemoaned that the country would scarcely create when around 90 percent of income was spent on overhead expenses, instead of on capital costs.

Talking on the continuous impasse between the national government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities  (ASUU) over the 2009 assention, Obasanjo, said government enabled itself to be charged into consenting to arrangements without full consultation inside the government.

In any case, he included that paying little respect to that, the legislature will undoubtedly actualize whatever understanding came reached with the workers' unions.

He stated: “Government allows itself to be stampeded into signing agreement particularly when one group or the other withdraws their service and go on strike. After the agreement has been signed, without full consultation within government, and implementation becomes an issue.

"Yet, an understanding is an assention whoever the specialist is that consented to that arrangement for your benefit, you are bound by it. You may now need to renegotiate to have another understanding yet the assention prior consented to remains in force and binding on the parties.

"The universities teachers go on strike, there is an assention; doctors go on strike, there will be a unique understanding. Furthermore, when the universities teachers see that the understanding came to with the doctors is not the same as theirs, they again go on strike and this is terrible for our economy.

"The way we are approaching spending all our income to pay overhead, we won't develop. What's more, we will have ourselves to fault. 90% of income is utilized to pay overhead, stipends, pay rates and very little is left for capital advancement.

"In a circumstance like that, we need to reconsider.

"It is far and away more terrible for the National Assembly. They will manhandle me again however I will talk constantly about them. They are a group of unarmed criminals."

"They are one of the most generously compensated on the planet where we have 75 percent of our kin living in contemptible destitution. They will mishandle me tomorrow and on the off chance that they don't, perhaps they are resting. The conduct and character of the National Assembly ought to be censured and entirely denounced."

In her comments at the event, the Administrator of the occasion, Dr. Ezekwesili, commented that the 289-page book, was a device for Nigeria to look at the degree to which she had lost her esteems and culture.

She criticized the loss of community spirit, cautioning that Nigeria should never negotiate her esteems.

As indicated by her, the world was as of now with the end goal that humankind attempted to make sense of what happened to profound quality.

The book analyst, Mr Nwachukwu Egbunike, in his comments on the book noticed the topic of woman's rights and how ladies explore life complexities towards making progress in life.

Egbunike likewise commended the creator's capacity to weave around various ideas in both the soul and characteristic world.

Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research, Innovation and Strategic Partnerships, University of Ibadan,Professor Olanike Adeyemo commented that Nwagwu's book was a veritable instrument to enable the more youthful era to keep touch with culture.

The occasion was attended by both academic and non-academic staff of the university who were on hand to praise the creator and his better half, Helen