Rising from its President-in-Council meeting in Onitsha, Anambra state, the Christian Lawyers Fellowship of Nigeria (CLASFON) yesterday frown at the federal government’s planed to spend a whopping sum of N1.8 billion for the purchase of new cars for senators.
The Christian lawyers in a communiqué? signed by Mr. Sunny Akanni and Mr Arome Okwori, president and secretary of CLASFON respectively and made available to LEADERSHIP in Kaduna,? noted that it was unfortunate, that while the Nigerian masses were groaning under very difficult economic hardship, government was planning to spend such a huge amount on just 109 people.
The Fellowship which frown at the decision, also questioned the rationale behind the 100 million naira donation to Kano State victims of the recent bomb explosions by the Central Bank Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, saying “such action was against the laws establishing the CBN.”
The lawyers said the federal government’s plan to spends N1.8 billion for the purchase of new cars for senators was unacceptable, given the current hardship Nigerians were going through as a result of? the removal of subsidy on fuel.
“This proposal is very alarming because Nigerians have been led to believe that the Government will limit itself to only necessary expenses in a bid to save cost. We urge the National Assembly to rescind this decision by withdrawing