Friday, November 13, 2009

When reps debated a failing nation



During the Second Republic, 1979-1983, the popular television program, MASQURADE, in obvious dig at the excesses of the period, added a new character, EMPEE (MP), a voluble braggart with a distended belly from who carried himself with a swagger in the context of the politics of that era.
That MP regularly boasted that he would introduce “a very rowdy motion” in parliament! Well, last week, members of the Nigerian House of Representative set aside temporarily, more serious matters like sharing money and attempting to get themselves immunity, to move a “a very rowdy motion”, like Zebrudaya’s EMPEE! Hon. Saleh Minjibir, a member of the ANPP, had been rankled by the October 5, 2009 edition of TELL magazine, which had been titled “The making of a failed nation”.