Ban Imported Rice, Wheat and Chicken – Ben Murray Bruce tells FG

By Yemi Adebowale

Chairman of Silverbird Group and Bayelsa State Senator-Elect, Ben Murray-Bruce has called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to ban the importation of rice, wheat and chicken, as it constitutes a drain on the nation’s foreign exchange.

NASS must force FG to ban importation of rice, wheat & chicken. It drains our forex and Nigerians won’t die if we don’t eat imported rice!

— Ben Murray-Bruce (@benmurraybruce) May 11, 2015

He made this declaration on Monday via his Twitter handle where he took time to address a number of socio-political and economic issues as they affect ordinary citizens as well as the pervasive poverty nationwide and the greed of the nation’s elite class. In one of such tweets, Mr. Murray-Bruce threatened to expose anyone who attempts to approach him or his colleagues with Ghana Must Go – the popular Nigerian parlance for bags of huge sums of money.

The 8th NASS won’t be a rubber stamp. Not while I’m there! I will expose ANYBODY that dares approach me or my colleagues with Ghana Must Go!

— Ben Murray-Bruce (@benmurraybruce) May 11, 2015

The PDP Bayelsa East Senator-elect has been active on Twitter lately and has earned a reputation as a leading voice of the masses in the social media space within the last few days.

Google it, a Gov who hadn’t paid workers salary for months budgeted almost 20 billion for his office. Even colonial masters won’t go that!

— Ben Murray-Bruce (@benmurraybruce) May 11, 2015

Never in the history of nations has so much been taken by so few from so many as Nigeria. The Nigerian elite sponge off the Nigerian masses!

— Ben Murray-Bruce (@benmurraybruce) May 11, 2015