Make political office less attractive, group urges FG
Odili said, “For instance, it is an understatement to site the allowances and salaries of political appointees including those of the state and national lawmakers as palpable and humongous. Till this moment, the Federal Government does not have the boldness and the courage to tell Nigerians the total package payable to these lawmakers because it can be appalling to bear.
“The best advice most valuable to the contemporary economy of Nigeria is that from the beginning of the 10th National Assembly, the federal and the state lawmakers should receive sitting allowances, but not salaries. “What is paid to these set of political office holders while in office as well as severance packages while leaving office is outrageous and deplorable. It has to stop. All such ‘mis-perks’ should stop if the country is to make progress. We appeal to the Federal Government to ensure that the perks attached to political offices are less attractive,
“On foreign accounts, CD also supports Aare Afe Babalola in his advice for enacting laws prohibiting politicians from having foreign accounts as such accounts aid destructive corruption in the country. “The monies that should be used to provide job opportunity for our teeming youths who are jobless or to provide other social amenities for the masses are cleverly siphoned to the West – a huge conduit pipe whereof our national coffer is being drained to be starched away in foreign lands,” Odili said.All rights reserved.
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