Ben Bruce, lawmaker representing Bayelsa central senatorial district, has alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari and his ministers spent their first year in office giving excuses.
“For the past year PMB and his ministers mistook the Federal Executive Council for the Federal Excuses Council. This must stop going forward!” he wrote on Twitter.
Known for his critical stance on government, Bruce has used social media as an avenue to express reservations over what he perceives as shortcomings of this administration.
In the sixth month of the All Progressives Congress-led government, Bruce alleged that Buhari was showing signs of helplessness.
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“Six months is one-eighth of a four-year tenure. If you are still blaming your predecessor after six months, when are you going to ever deliver the goods?” he wrote on Twitter.
“Blaming others is a sign of helplessness. A numero uno should not blame. He must take responsibility for leading us out of troubled waters.
“Go ahead and attack me, I don’t mind. I am not the president or a governor. I’m just a Nigerian who loves Buhari enough to tell him the truth!”
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He also criticised the delay in the inauguration of ministers, and when the ministers were sworn, he charged Nigerians to hold them accountable.
“Congrats to our new minister of aviation, let’s challenge our minister to confirm neither he nor his aides will fly first-class at tax payers’ expense. Let’s challenge our minister of transport to confirm he will use various public transports at least once a month,” he tweeted back in November.
“Congrats to @Gov_Rajifashola, let’s challenge our minister of power to confirm he won’t use generator so he’ll feel what Nigerians are feeling.”
He went on to challenge other ministers to eat “Nigeria-made foods”, Nigerian hospitals, and other locally-made products.
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5 comments
Ben has a big mouth and unfortunately he is a lame duck himself and by no means better than PMB. Can Ben please remind NIGERIANS how many progressive Bills he has sponsored since he became a legislator. Of course none. Ben, my advice to you are as follows: (1) Sponsor a bill that will eliminate the ridiculous and absurd salaries and allowances that taxpayers are paying you and your fellow greedy legislators. (2) Sponsor a bill that will remove immunity clause from our constitution. (3) Sponsor a bill that will make looting our treasury a crime purnishable by life imprisonment without eligibility for parole or release. (4) Sponsor a bill that will allow the FGN to prosecute State Governor who loots his/her State treasury or fail to pay workers, (5) Sponsor a bill that will restructure Nigeria and cut our 36 States to 18. (6) Sponsor a bill that will make Pry and secondary school education free. (7) Sponsor a bill that will take the power to determine and adjust legislators’ salaries and allowances from the hands of the legislators themselves rather than making them the judge and jury on matters relating to their pay. (8) Sponsor a bill that will cut down on the staff and finances of the National Assembly so that we can have money left in the treasury to develop the country (9) Sponsor a bill that will allocate a huge amount of funds for 2 refineries in every region in Nigeria. The responsibility to develop Nigeria begins from the National Assemly because you guys are the lawmakers/breakers in Nigeria. This is a challenge to you Ben because I am not going to sit around and let a pot call a kettle black.
Your comment..CK, in fact u hv really said my entire mind. God bles u. Let him just sponsor one out of 9 points if he can , he use English and fool local canoe paddlers to bcom a senator , contributing nothing to their region, bt busy writing rubbish. my guy tomb up for u .
Mr. Bruce, with all due respect, l think it is rather unfair to accuse the President of having achieved nothing for one year. We all have access to the mass media and we know the steps his regime taken as regards corruption and insecurity in the nation. What kind of progress can you have in a nation where these two problems exist? I think he is taking the right steps. In fact, if he had ventured into any other aspect of the nation’s development, it would have been like putting the cart before the horse or , better still, carrying water in a basket. This is simply because foreign investors would be discouraged from investing in unsafe grounds on one hand and on the other hand, there can be no real economic growth where there is corruption. What is expected of business tycoons like yourself is to be innovative and supportive to a government that is taking positive steps for the future of the nation. I’m sure I have made some (common) sense.
Wonderful and bold speech frm Mr Como since PMB should understand d meaning numero UNO PRESIDO is what we need now not stories
But what you are saying has not in any way proved Mr Bruce wrong in his observations. the truth can be a bitter pill,but in a situation on economical slide someone has to swallow it.