THE
Senate disclosed, yesterday, that senators unanimously rejected the
proposed loan to purchase their vehicles, saying none of the 109
lawmakers was interested in it.
Speaking with journalists in
Abuja yesterday, Chairman, Senate Committee on Senate Services, Senator
Ibrahim Gobir, said the upper chamber never spent over N4 billion to
purchase 108 cars for lawmakers.
According to him, only 36 SUVs were bought at the cost of N36.5 million each.
He
said: “We had a close session and they agreed that we should give one
car per state; we sat down and agreed on who among the three senators
from each state needs the car most and that was what happened.”
Gobir,
who wondered why Nigerians would kick against the purchase of new
exotic cars, said as senators they were entitled to official cars
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