What a moment for Nigeria’s national parliament: “The National Assembly is to get N70 billion in the 2022 Supplementary Appropriation Bill to improve the working conditions of its new members.” And that takes me back to that novel – The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born – by Ghana’s Ayi Kwei Armah . Reading Armah’s novel in the same term with “The Incorruptible Judge” by D. Olu Olagoke, you become confused if both are writing of the same Africa. They were: Armah was writing of the existing Africa while Olagoke was thinking of an expectant Africa.
The National Assembly is to get N70 billion in the 2022 Supplementary Appropriation Bill to improve the working conditions of its new members.
Conversely, farmers who suffered the devastating 2022 floods across the country, will be getting N19 billion.
These are contained in the bill considered by the House of Representatives on Thursday during plenary.
A breakdown and details of the allocation are contained in a document obtained by PREMIUM TIMES.
PREMIUM TIMES had reported that President Bola Tinubu forwarded a bill to amend the 2022 Supplementary Act to the National Assembly. The supplementary Bill had earlier been passed by the ninth assembly.
Armah’s work was brutal and I am not sure if WAEC has ever recommended it for English Literature students. It was painful to read to imagine a teenager growing up in such a hopeless imagination. But my dean of studies, Mr Ude, derived joy reminding everyone of this novel as he criticized IBB wife’s Better Life for Rural Women project, exclaiming “the beautiful ones are not yet born” at the end of his complaints, about Nigeria.
So, in less than two months – Nigeria’s congress has taken care of the bank accounts of their members. They have scored and now they can “work” for us. It is all illusion as Armah wrote!
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*That is from BBC pidgin please on that “di”. I had to add “s” on “approve” even though that broke the second law of pidgin, no plural and singular.
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