The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari , now understands why national legislators get jumbo pay, compared to when he came into office in 2015, according to the Presidency.
’s investigations, each of the 109 senators in the National Assembly takes home about N182m yearly, translating to N15.1m monthly or N45.3m per quarter.
However, between 2015 and 2020, the budget ranged from N120bn to N139bn, as Nigeria faced dwindling financial resources, particularly from crude oil market volatility.In the 2020 budget, the figure was jacked up by lawmakers to N128bn, just N10bn short of the 2019 mark. Buhari said in the message, delivered on his behalf by the Minister of Information and Culture, Mr Lai Mohammed, “Hitherto, the public perception of the National Assembly is that of a bicameral legislature where overly comfortable and highly-overpaid members merely stuff wads of currency notes into their pockets for little work done.
“Any other money that is not fixed by the commission is allocated to the office for their job. There is a distinction between the office and the members. The office carries out a lot of functions. So, as members, they use the money to run those functions.” Groups, including organised labour, the Nigerian Bar Association and the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project have disagreed with the President’s new position, saying it is unrealistic for the legislators to receive huge pay while the National Minimum Wage is N30,000.
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