{"id":590,"date":"2007-06-20T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2007\/06\/20\/perks-of-the-job-2\/"},"modified":"2007-06-20T09:05:05","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T09:05:05","slug":"perks-of-the-job-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2007\/06\/20\/perks-of-the-job-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Perks of the job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/naijablog.blogspot.com\/\">Jeremy<\/a> has posted details of the <a href=\"http:\/\/naijablog.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/car-fest-in-abuja.html\">perks of being a legislator in Nigeria<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It makes quite sickening reading, especially things such as &#8220;Senate President David Mark &#8230; is to have eight official cars including two for personal use, two as pilot cars, and one each for protocol, ambulance, security, and the press.&#8221;  A man of such great importance obviously needs a separate car to ferry around his press lackeys and two to clear the roads in front of him.<\/p>\n<p>It would be interesting to compare these perks to legislators in other countries, but I really don&#8217;t have time to research it just now.  It would also be interesting to compare to some of the non-governmental people in Nigeria, such as the EU consultants who fly in, live in considerable luxury while they pass on their wisdom and then fly out again.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s difficult to explain the level of revulsion and anger I feel every time some &#8220;big man&#8217;s&#8221; convoy passes by on the road.  I&#8217;m pretty sure the average state governor here has a larger convoy than Tony Blair, just to make him feel more important.<\/p>\n<p>A decent government would restrict these idiots to one car and a driver, possibly with some security vehicles, if required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy has posted details of the perks of being a legislator in Nigeria. It makes quite sickening reading, especially things such as &#8220;Senate President David Mark &#8230; is to have eight official cars including two for personal use, two as pilot cars, and one each for protocol, ambulance, security, and the press.&#8221; A man of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}