Abuja-The Chairman, Senate Services Committee, Sunday Karimi (APC, Kogi West), has dismissed public outcry over the purchase of Prado Landcruiser Sports Utility Vehicles, SUVs, for 469 federal lawmakers as misplaced.“He expressed disappointment over the media frenzy, which followed the exposure of details of the vehicle purchase deal which has become a quadrennial ritual.

Karimi, who stated this during an interview with journalists after Senate plenary in Abuja yesterday, explained that the Senate took cognizance of a lot of factors, including cost effectiveness, durability and the poor state of most Nigerian roads, before settling for the SUVs.