Silverbird Chiarman "Ben Murray-Bruce" To Vie For Senatorial Seat In Bayelsa

Less than three months before the 2015 general elections across Nigeria, the Chairman of Silverbird group, Ben Murray-Bruce, has expressed interest in running for Bayelsa East Senatorial seat on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Making the declaration in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa state on Thursday, the entertainment mogul told the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, that among his plans if elected senator in 2015 is to eradicate poverty in the state.
Murray-Bruce added that his desire was to eradicate mass poverty in Nigeria as a lawmaker, using the tool of legislative advocacy.

Ben Murray-Bruce of Silverbird Group.

The business tycoon, who hails from Akassa in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa, said that he would deploy creative legislative skills and strategy to fight the alarming rate of poverty in the country.
He said: “I am running for the Senate because I am interested in the laws of our land. I am interested in making changes. I am interested in being positive, I am not interested in business as usual, a lot of things have gone wrong in our nation. A lot of it could be traced to the chamber I want to be a part of.
“And if we fix the problem, we’ve fixed Nigeria’s problems. One of the biggest issue for me as a businessman, as a politician, is the issue of poverty.
“I have always been concerned about poverty of the masses, about Nigerian women who are not being protected, children who are being raped, babies who are being raped, men who are paedophiles and do not face the law.
“A society where there is no order, we must bring order to our society. There are too many poor people living under the bridge.
“Nigeria is too rich for people to be too poor; Nigeria is too poor for the super upper class to be so rich.
“That has to stop. If they pay their taxes, an individual will not have three private jets.
“If they pay their taxes, the poor man on the street will have a chance to make a living.
“We are here to make laws. You may consider this radical, you may consider it unorthodox, this society will explode and implode, unless politicians start thinking rationally.”
Murray-Bruce also informed that he had begun working on 10 draft bills on issues of poverty and alternative sources of energy, among others.