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The spokesman of the Senate Yemi Adaramodu has downplayed criticisms over wages earned by federal lawmakers, saying the National Assembly’s budget is just one per cent of the country’s budget.Senator Adaramodu said contrary to widely-held belief, the lawmakers are not earning humongous sums as salaries.
Over the years, many have accused them of earning bogus wages and bonuses despite the country’s lean resources. The exact figures earned by the lawmakers have been shrouded in secrecy over the years. “Talking about the salaries of the National Assembly, it is a far cry from what it is supposed to be,” he said in the February 26 edition of Channels Television’s“At the moment, talking about the salary of the National Assembly. I have said this over and again: it is not as much as people think. Salary is different from allowance, which is meant to do the jobs our constituents have sent us to do”.
In 2018, a former lawmaker Senator Shehu Sani said he got N750,000 monthly as salary and N13.5 million monthly running costs, triggering an outcry among Nigerians.
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