Writing via his Twitter handle on
Thursday, Bruce said Nigeria cannot pay its doctors well “but we can budget
₦1.1 billion to clean a government office”.
“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,” he wrote.
But 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 doctors in Nigeria, a few others applauded
him for speaking “common sense” — but “tell this to your colleagues on the
floor of the senate.”
They asked Bruce and his
colleagues at the upper legislative chamber to “take a cue” from the action of
the Canadian doctors and protest their high pay.
Senators in Nigeria are
collecting 13.5 million monthly, apart from their monthly salary, according to
Shehu Sani, lawmaker representing Kaduna central senatorial district.
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