Senator Sani Tells El-Rufa’I: You Are The New Emperor Nero
Senator Shehu Sani[/caption]
Senator Shehu Sani has likened Governor Nasir el-Rufa’I to Emperor Nero over his decision to hold a music festival which the legislator described as frivolous and uncalled given the harsh economic clime.
In a statement by the Senator representing Kaduna Central at the 8th National Assembly, Sani wondered why the governor will consider a music festival that amidst the current financial challenges in the face of competing demands.
“The upcoming multi million naira jamboree known as Kaduna music festival stands unreservedly condemned.
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“The event is an indecent and immoral proposition and an affront to the people of Kaduna, the North and the whole of Nigeria struggling to survive economic hardships and pervasive insecurity.
“It’s shameful, disgraceful, irresponsible and utterly insensitive that at this sorrowful and mournful season of bloodshed and economic difficulties, the Kaduna state government and so called ‘banks and the private sector’ have jointly decided to feast, make merry and dance on the graves of victims of Boko Haram insurgency in the North.
“It’s callous and amounts to insouciance that at a time when thousands of civil servants and pensioners across the nation remained unpaid, multi million naira is about to be wasted in a musical event.
“With over 25 thousand innocent persons killed by insurgents, more thousands abducted and unaccounted for, over two million people displaced from their hamlets, homes, villages and towns in the north, and with soldiers on the frontline fighting and dying to restore peace and order in the north, the musical event is nothing other than playing the fiddle while Rome is on fire.”
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He urged the people of the state to boycott the event, and appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari, to reject the invitation to be part of the music fiesta.
“Attending Kaduna Musical festival amounts to canonization of Emperor Nero. I call on President Muhammadu Buhari to reject the invitation to attend the charade called Kaduna Music festival.
“It’s a contradiction and morally reprehensible that the same Kaduna State government that declared that it will no longer finance pilgrimage to Saudi and Jerusalem and that it refuses to sponsor Ramadan feeding for the poor and Tafsir, but now have enough money to sponsor and host a musical jamboree,” said the senator.
