Senator Dino Melaye has taken a swipe at his party for failing to
meet the expectations of Nigerians. According to Vanguard, the senator
spoke after he was conferred with the Legislator of the Year 2017 by
Daily Asset Newspaper in Abuja.
He said: “The APC government has become Public Complaint Commission.
We have more complains in the APC and even in the Presidency than
service rendered. We cannot as a people continue like this. The
President said two days ago we should all embrace peace but I want to
say without fear or favour that there can be no peace without justice.
There is hunger in the land, there is poverty in the land, and there is
unemployment in the land. A lot of decision has not been taken; yet we
say we want peace. The primary objective of government is the security
and welfare of the people. There is no security, there is no welfare".
'Nigeria is not only sick presently but equally suffers from
regretful congenital abnormality. There is therefore a serious need for
amelioration, palliation and correction. Democracy will continue to be
government of the people by the people for the people but what we have
today is greedocracy which is government of the greedy by the greedy and
for the greedy. I delivered a lecture recently at the University of
Lagos and some students from very wealthy homes, two of them said they
didn’t care who the president of the country is and that it was none of
their business because their parents were rich'.
"I said to them that when the poor have nothing to eat, they will
start eating the rich. A time will come when it will be difficult to
drive your expensive cars on the streets. There was no kidnapping
before, and kidnapping is seen as the redistribution of both ill-gotten
and legitimate wealth. People now take from the rich and appropriate to
themselves.”
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