Well, call me any name you wish…the news coming out of Zamfara State “dey sweet my belle”. And my prayer is that more states should follow in quick steps, and rub this particular shame out of our overload of self-inflicted moral and ethical diminution.
We have been informed that the response to the shameless reminder of Zamfara’s former governor, Abdulaziz Yari that he had not been paid his N10m monthly allowance was met by a checkmate move from the Zamfara State House of Assembly few days ago. The legislators repealed the mindless law which basically legitimatized the jungle ambush of the common purse for the humongous benefits of former governors, their deputies and spouses.
The Nasiru Mu’azu Magarya-led house of assembly masterminded a fast tracking of the counter-bill which flew through the legislative process within 24 hours, and by the close of plenary, it was ready for the governor’s assent.
May such “surgical exercise” be the portion of similar irresponsible and thieving legislations enacted in Lagos, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, and other states where obsequious and spineless legislators have opened the legs of our states for outgoing governors to rape and plunder without mercy.