PapaBrowne: 25k?? I would hardly believe this amount. However it could be in order when you consider that the cbn governor has almost no where to go withing Nigeria on official assignment. Its just Lagos and Abuja which I think he has residences.

My average Lagos trip costs me about btw 40-60k per day.

Hotel bills on the island: 20-25k per night(very cheap)
Transport: Taxis or Car Hire: Average 5- 10k per day.
Feeding: Average 5k per day when there is no one tagging along. I avoid hotel food like a plague. Too costly and never worth the meal.
Other exigencies: 5 to 20k

25k is not a lot of money for a CBN governor. I so dont believe that figure.

lagerwhenindoubt: N25k per night!! that is dirt cheap. try USD1000

Jarus:

Bros, you fall my hand o
You are one of the least people I expect not to be able to distinguish between out-of-station allowance(per diem) and travel costs. So you also think the logistics/service dept will hand over cash to a CBN governor to book hotel, flight etc himself.

Why on earth are people mixing what is expected to be simple?

I travel to Uyo, PH etc on official assignments and my company books flight, hotel etc for me and still hands over token as inconvenience.

If we don't know what is per diem/out-of-station allowance, at least we can read where he says he flies business/first/chartered. Does anyone expect that that is from the 25k? For God's sake, how does anyone expect a top public officer to be the one handling payment for flights, hotels etc by himself when there is corporate services dept? He may not even know how much those cost. The PA just hand over the ticket/reservation to him.

Jarus: He is first public officer to respond to private queries by a citizen on FOI. Kudos.

I don't think we expect a CBN governor to be flying economy.

I hope he declares others too.

While I recognize that nobody can place 100% trust in another human, the Sanusi I know beyond public, I seriously doubt will enrich himself beyond his legitimate entitlements.

Kudos to Aturu too (another product of Great Ife students activism )).

Jarus:
Na wa o.

So you don't know that your employer books hotel for you, pays your travel costs (if you are not traveling with official transport) etc. So you think the 25k is what the governor will spend to pay for his flight, hotel etc?

klas:

He does not earn traveling allowance unless he travels. Since he does not travel everyday of the month, you cannot just multiply by 30 days.

BTW, The allowance is just a sort of inconvenience allowance. All his travelling expenses will be catered for by the protocol department.

PapaBrowne:

Ok. No mind me. I didn't really read the full article. I just read the headline.

But seriously, more important than the out of station allowance, wouldn't it do the populace better if we knew what exactly it costs per year or so to run the Governors office. Our intergrity governor should even be the one in a rush to show us the details like he is wont to do when it comes to other political office holders.

To be fair to Sanusi, I would like to look at his response from another perspective. By answering Aturu's request, he is strengthening the effectiveness, efficiency and efficacy of the FOI act. Commendable.

Pennywise:
Blimey. The state pays for all expenses including feeding, transportation, accommodation infact total logistic requirement for d trip so he can do his job and he still gets to keep 25k. What d hell for? And this is supposed to be an ennobling disclosure of the Cbn gov. Nigerian's will surely like to know more about other routine allowances.

hoochay: op how do u expect me to readings all this storys,pls make una help me scan am

akintun: “Besides the governor’s emolument and indeed the emolument structure of the CBN is benchmarked against the banking industry as approved in the federal government’s white paper on the presidential committee on consolidation of emoluments in the Public Service.

I think benchmarking his remuneration with d banking industry is very wrong. D governor of d central bank should not earn close to wat d MD of a bank earns.If d gov wants to be rich, he should go back to d commercial bank. A public servant dat called 4 d sacking of 50% of other public servants flies first class. I pity my country.

hbabe: Why did he talk about this local travel allowance alone? Why hide the others?
If he wants to be transparent about his earnings then he should declare everything jare not this 'the more you look the less you see' kind of declaration. Are we supposed to pity him that he gets 25k allowance daily for local trips after all expenses have been paid for? Abeg, make dem let us see road jor!