" the US government‘s action against them was unpleasant, callous and a slap on Nigeria as a nation."
Really Mr. Honourable ?
It is the prerogative of each country to let you into their country. And if they choose not, well it might be unpleasant to you but it does not make them callous.
And it is not a slap on Nigeria as a nation. never.
In fact, what would seem a bigger slap to the integrity of Ondo state and her people, let alone Nigeria, is that all 26 of you, would wake up someday and feel the necessity to attend some undisclosed seminar in countries that are more than six thousand miles away from you, all funded from the public purse:
/ Countries where there are functional roads, functional hospitals, functional educational infrastructure, and healthy progressive people /
And most disgraceful of all, countries where their own leadership do not ever think of attending your own's organised seminar.
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Mr. Speaker Abdulsalam Taofik would further explain that one of his house member was spreading rumours and that visa-application-processing apparently has become one of the duties of the leadership of the Ondo state House of assembly.
Hear him:-
"“Why should Atikase be spreading unfounded rumours? He did not apply for the US; he applied for the Canadian visa and we are already processing that for him,”
Pathetic.
This is sad, in the dimension that it exposes to you the small mindset with which the affairs of a supposed independent state are being conducted and frightens you, how we got here, and just how much road we have to travel...
The totality of their situation beggars the questions:-
- - What are/were the course content of these agreed seminars ?
- - How precisely is the seminar to benefit the people of Ondo state ?
- - Who is picking up the bills, especially now that the application has been denied ? (The very minimum fee of applying for a UK visa is more than N17,000.00 per application)
- - Do these officers actually recognise their various duties, to their constituencies ?
and the biggest, simplest question of all:
Do these legislators not have access to satellite television, let alone the Internet in their respective homes or chambers ?
They could have saved themselves these embarrassment, with merely a free TV subscription to BBC Parliament.
Or, an organised Internet seminar-sessions visiting here
That would, of course, be if it was not about the money, the estacode charge-backs.
