A Senator, Dabi Abdullahi, has said that Nigerians who are criticising the plan by the Federal Government to renovate the National Assembly complex with N37bn do no value the democratic process.
According to the Senator from Niger State, who proposed death penalty for hate speech, most of them do not no how big the complex is inside, adding that all they saw was from outside the facility.
He told ‘Channels Television’ during a programme on Thursday:
“When we came on board in this particular republic in 1999, the structures and every other thing that was put in place came in with the transition and since that time till now, it is on record that not much has been done to upgrade, renovate and to continually add value to that institution even as the legislature continues to evolve in terms of what it requires to carry out its democratic function.
“The idea of rehabilitating that particular complex is long overdue because this is 20 years now and there was no major rehabilitation done to the structure and it has been serving Nigeria from that period up till now.”
“What people see from the outside is not what that building is alone; you need to go inside to understand what that building is before you can think maybe what is being done is on the high side.
“Nigerians do not value the democratic process we have. If they do, they won’t be saying what they are saying.”
