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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