ACN Candidate Promises To Slash NASS Salaries

A senatorial candidate for Enugu East senatorial district of Enugu State on  the platform of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the forthcoming 2011 general elections, Dr. Ben Nwoye, has promised to initiate a bill that would enable the National Assembly  slash the current jumbo salaries and allowances being received by members of the nation’s highest law making body.

Dr. Nwoye, who is challenging the incumbent senator and former Governor of Enugu state, Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani, also vowed to unseat him, alleging that the  zone  has not been truly  represented  in the upper chambers of the National Assembly  by  senator Chimaroke Nnamani, since the inception of the out- going administration.

  Nwoye, a United States based legal practitioner, send part of  the fat salaries and allowances presently being enjoyed by National Assembly members and their families alone can be channeled to useful areas that can be of immense benefit to other Nigerians.

Focusing on his senatorial zone, Dr Nwoye he said  “We have not been truly   represented for the past three and half years with a senator who has never attempted to be part of any law- making process.  We have a senator who is disconnected from his own people. Absolutely, no district project of any kind”, he declared.

 Nwoye, a  Civil Rights Attorney noted to have  challenged unpleasent laws in major cities of Chicago State in the United States of America, promised to give his people true representation if given the opportunity to serve his people.

Speaking to newsmen in Enugu  the ACN senatorial Aspirant,  stated  that  Nigeria, “which claims  to be   copying United States presidential model of democracy had been doing so  only in  theory and  not in practice”.

He, therefore,  decried the inability  of Nigerian  governments  to initiate  human oriented programmes and policies capable of improving the lots of the nation’s suffering masses , adding that “We have lawmakers and leaders who attend only to   their own personal  needs alone”.

 On how he  intends to unseat the  incumbent Senator representing the zone, Dr.  Chimaroke Nnamani ,  currently seeking  re-election, he declared, “I am actually flowing with the tide as everybody is clamoring for a  change for the better.  When you look at his records, I do not believe he will get a pass mark’’, he insisted.

“If my people give me the mandate, I am going to turn around the education sector, especially the primary and secondary schools, and the army of unemployment from my constituency allowance.

“I Will establish a programme that will uplift the status of the disabled children within my senatorial district.

Expressing concern over the alarming rate of corruption in the country, Dr Nwoye said the “nation’s leaders are stealing the country blind with impunity.

 I still  have  abounding faith in President Goodluck Jonathan and the Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC] that for the first time in history,   Nigerians  will be allowed to elect their leaders in 2011 general elections”.

He promised to  establish liaison offices in all the six Local Government Areas that make up     Enugu East senatorial district if given the mandate, saying such development would  enable members of his constituency to walk easily into the nearest office and make complains or seek clarifications on issues.