Emulate Canadian doctors by protesting Senators’ high salary - Nigerians blast Ben Bruce
Ben Bruce, Senator representing Bayelsa east, said on Thursday, March 9, via his Twitter handle, @benmurraybruce, that while Nigerian doctors are protesting meagre salaries, their Canadian counterparts are protesting for being paid “too much”.
Bruce said Nigeria cannot pay its doctors well “but we can budget ₦1.1 billion to clean a government office”.
Read his tweet: “At a time Canadian doctors are protesting that they are being paid too much (your eyes don't deceive you), doctors in Nigeria are on strike for not being paid enough. We can't pay our doctors well, but we can budget ₦1.1 billion to clean a government office. Which way Nigeria?”
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However, the senator’s statement did not go well with most of his followers.
While some of them accused him of being part of the plight of the medical doctors in Nigeria, a few others applauded him for speaking “common sense” but ask him to pass the message to his colleagues in the Senate.
They asked Senator Bruce and his colleagues at the Senate to emulate the action of the Canadian doctors and protest their high pay.
According to Shehu Sani, the lawmaker representing Kaduna central senatorial district, Nigerian Senators are collecting 13.5 million monthly, apart from their monthly salary.
Legit.ng collects some of the reactions Ben Bruce’s tweet generated below:
"Sir,you and your colleagues in the senate and House of assembly can also protest that your allowances are too much...what do you think?" - Izuchukwu
"Let the Nigerian senators take a queue from this" - Raymond Lucid
"Exactly.
Canadian doctors have shown that people can protest that they get too much while others get nothing." - Arua Ezinne Celine
"A guy open to learning... *Thumb up!*" - OdinAimhie™
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"You're always doing follow-follow; what concerns us if doctors in Canada decide to work for free? That's how u managed to legitimise prostitute in this country under d guise of beauty pageantry! Hv u stopped chatting extortionate fees in Silverbird cinemas?" - Arinze Duru
"Why can't Nigerian senators emulate the Canadian Doctors?.... then we will know you are fighting people's cause... You can lead by example too..not just to attack presidency all the time ... National Assembly is part of the system and problem sir." - Adeniyi Ayokunle
"You seem to be oblivious of the fact that you're a part of the all these inefficiencies & insensitivities! Why have you not refused & stopped your colleagues from amassing N13.5million as extra running cost as revealed recently by Senator Shehu Sani? Tell us your part in it." - Olubiyi Bibi Falemara-Williams
"Not sure our dear SINator takes time to go through his replies.. But, before you know it, he tweets something like this again. A senate should be honorable and stop tweeting rubbish judging by the replies he gets." - Amaechi Olawuyi
"Sounds nice, let it start from the Senate. You people should cut down your Maxi bumper wages. Charity begins at home, don’t throw stone when you live in glass house. 13.5m monthly and 220million constituency allowance. Ole ni yin" - Sekere
"Oga Ben. You are a senator. Say these things on the floor of the house. Stop repeating our problems, we know." - Oso Oluwatosin
Legit.ng previously reported that Senator Bruce slammed President Muhammadu Buhari over an alleged offer made by the president to help neighbouring country, Ghana, fight corruption.
Bruce, referring to the recent report by Transparency International on corruption in Nigeria, said the Buhari administration should focus more on combating the terrorism in Nigeria first.
The senator, who made this statement on his Twitter page, also accused the presidency of fighting opposition instead of corruption.
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Source: Legit.ng
