Lawrence Nwimo, Awka
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chief Ben Uzuegbu has decried insensitivity of the political class toward the plights of the poor and the down-trodden in Nigeria.
The legal luminary who made the lamentation in a chat with journalists in Onitsha said he had lost interest in reading newspapers and watching news due to politicians’ lack of passion for the poor.
He said, “Lack of passion for the poor by the political class has made me to develop apathy to reading newspapers and watching news items in electronics media.
“In all they do the political class don’t remember the people who voted for them.
“There are poverty and hunger all over the country even when the politicians live in plenty. Yet, they will not midwife programmes that will cushion the effect of their harsh conditions.”
Uzuegbu who doubles as Deputy Chancellor, Diocese on the Niger, said, “each time I tried to watch television or read newspapers, I saw insensitivity of the political class in the face of the suffering masses of the country.
“I would ask, where did they keep the people who are the bed rock of democracy? The people don’t have power again in democracy.
“And I ask myself, am I hallucinating when I watch what they do on television?”
