I was feeling good so I decided to offer you a teaser from the Senator Bukoka Saraki interview. Mind you, the complete interview is the most comprehensive he has granted in recent years. No holds barred, no questions unanswered apart from one question. I will tell you which when the full interview gets published. Until then feel this for starters 🙂

Omojuwa: Your senate is the most hated collection of people in Nigeria today and you might actually be amongst the highly ranked ones especially given the recent police events. My worry is that why would someone like you go into the house and see them increase their allowances that are ordinarily extraordinarily big. And based on this 2012 budget, you had another increase. What did you do? Are you comfortable with this?

Sen. Saraki: This is what I’ve always said that we bring the issue to public fora. Our salary per se is about a million naira a month. Now what has happened is that the cost of running the office, public hearings, constituency running and all that what you can call running operations ..

Omojuwa: Cuts in…is it more than the cost of the American president running the White House?

Sen. Saraki: Because the American president you don’t see it under their salary. It’s a different item entirely.

Omojuwa: Cuts in…why don’t you guys make the law…

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Sen. Saraki: it was when the thing started getting ugly I said “Hey, what’s going on here I mean I have not done anything wrong…hearing things like loan fraud and all…

You don’t want to miss this