8 September 2008
The Progressive Peoples Alliance has lashed out at federal lawmakers for the move to increase their wage saying it smacks of "legislative rascality and insensitivity to precarious nature of sufferings encountered by the masses of this country."
The party in a statement by its Chief Publicity Secretary, Chief Ben Onyechere, said "the National Assembly which is expected to live by example ought to understand the grave consequence of allowing the deprived people of this Nation watch in self pity, the flagrant display of opulence in the midst of abject squalor, the situation where election representatives of the people who should be the bastion of hope indiscriminately increase their sundry wages is not accepted.
"The major concern of any responsible polity should be the prosperity of its citizens first and foremost and not self aggrandisement.
"The legislators should engage more in fruitful deliberations which are capable of liberating the majority of the poor because induced poverty witnessed in this country can lead to instability of our had-earned democracy."
Also, the party has criticised the call for the stoppage of funding of political parties by INEC, saying the call is is not in consonance with democratic ethos.
"In our experimental democratic stage, such a call which also encourages personal donation can engineer domination of parties by donors, which will invariably lead to corruption in different forms.
"The funding of political parties by INEC will ensure equity and sanity in the polity as well as encourage internal democracy in the parties.
"PPA fully associates itself with the aims and objectives of the CNPP but will not fail to point out issues that can derail our nascent democracy.
Personal donations to parties should not be the only source of funding for the parties, it should only complement INEC funding to strike a balance."
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