Halfway into the tenure of the Senate, 34 senators have not sponsored any bill since coming to office, according to official records released by the Senate.

The Senate's Mid-Term Assessment Report shows that of the total 109 senators, 74 have sponsored at least a bill during the period starting June 2011 while the rest initiated none. Senate President David Mark sponsored no bill but, by convention, he is not expected to table any bill in his capacity as presiding officer of the Senate.

A Daily Trust analysis of the assessment report issued last month reveals that senators who did not sponsor any bill constitute about one-third of the upper chamber.

This is coming amidst public debate on the emoluments of Nigerian federal lawmakers, who a recent report by the Economist ranked top in a global chart of Economist ranked top in a global chart of legislators' salaries.

Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) records in possession of Daily Trust show that each senator is entitled to N35 million in yearly salaries and allowances.

Based on this alone, the 34 senators would have collectively received more than N1 billion in wages, apart from other hefty allowances received in quarterly instalments.

No bills

Senators who did not sponsor any bill in the two years under review, according to the assessment report, include Jibrilla Mohammed Bindowo (PDP, Adamawa), Chris Ngige (ACN, Anambra), Babayo Garba Gamawa (PDP, Bauchi), George Akume (ACN, Benue), Maina Ma'aji Lawan (ANPP, Borno), Mohammed Ali Ndume (PDP, Borno), Ahmad Zannah (PDP, Borno), Nwanko Christopher (PDP, Delta), Oguji Sunny (PDP, Ebonyi) and Babafemi Ojudu (ACN, Ekiti).

Other senators with no bills are Mohammed Danjuma Goje (PDP, Gombe), Abdulazeez Usman (PDP, Jigawa), Ahmed Makarfi (PDP, Kaduna), Mohammed Sani Saleh (CPC, Kaduna), Kabiru Gaya (ANPP, Kano), Sadiq Yar'Adua (CPC, Katsina), Mohammed Magoro (PDP, Kebbi), Suleiman Adoke (PDP, Nasarawa), Solomon Ewuga (CPC, Nasarawa), Obadara Olugbenga Onoalapa (ACN, Ogun), Kunlere Boluwaji (LP, Ondo), Robert Boroffice (LP, Ondo), Olusola Adeyeye (ACN, Osun) and Hosea Agboola Ayoola (PDP, Oyo).

Also on the list are Magnus Abe (PDP, Rivers), Wilson Asinobi Ake (PDP, Rivers), Mohammed Maccido (PDP, Sokoto), Abubakar Umar Turare (PDP, Taraba), Aisha Jummai Alhassan (PDP, Taraba), Alkali Jajere (ANPP, Yobe), Bukar Abba Ibrahim (ANPP, Yobe), Ahmed Sani Yarima (ANPP, Zamfara), Sahabi Alhaji Ya'u (PDP, Zamfara) and Kabiru Garba Marafa (ANPP, Zamfara).


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See people wasting our money.

lol at chris ngige.

yet there got all salaries and other benefits of been sanators.... thunder fire them [color=#990000][/color]

Why am i not surprised
They were probably too busy..looting

Why can't we just 'de-senate' them Better still pay them less.

yeye people

This is waste of resources,they should all be recalled

sitting allowance

Is it by force?

So what have they been doing in the house? This same people will complain of over-staffing in the civil service, so they should be sent back to their various regions to do someone they are better soothed for.

I need to join politics asap

how will they sponsor bills when they never had anything in mind to offer the people even before coming to the senate.
all on their mind is to amass as much as they can and stay put there.
shame on them

THEY SHOULD BE SERVED REDUNDANCY LETTER. THEY ARE JUST SPECTATORS, EVEN CHELSEA FANS BETTER PASS THEM.

The ones that sponsored bills, of what relevance has any of the bills been to the common Nigerian...

E.g My honourable Senator Yerima.

Ahmed Makarfi (PDP, Kaduna)
so this one no dey shame

As much as i support the revision of the remuneration of these glorified and legalised pen robbers, it is needful to state that being a lawmaker is not all about sponsoring bills but actively defending the interest of the electorates you are representing.

If its by bills, do not be amazed when you see a lawmaker sponsoring a bill to regulate the time we get off our beds

Lazy folks

Before nko? If there's no bill to be tabled by them, will you force them? There's more to being a senator than just tabling bills. You are there to represent your constituency and protect their interests. No be only bill.

Na so una talk till Yarima table him bill una come begin shout.

What they give back to the people who voted them should speak for them, not sponsoring bills that are mostly irrelevant and selfish.

Someone sponsored the gay bill, right? The bill for the creation of the Office of the First Lady was also sponsored by someone. So, sponsoring bills is not really a good barometer for measuring senatorial achievement.

I'm surprised at Ngige. So all his noise making translated to nothing. yeye

Seeing that the names spread across all major parties in the Chambe, you'd conclude that no party is actually better than the other.all our politicians apparrently know only one thing, looting. Come to think of it even those that sponsored bills, how has their bill-sponsoring bettered the life of a commont Nigerian. Where's electriciity, where's employment, food and lest I forget electricity. May weGod deliver ourselves someday.

A̲̅ηϑ almighty Ngige will always come to anambra to make mouth that he is all in all. How will he sponsor, when he is only there to be gathering money for unlimited campaign.

u cant give what u dont have period.
abi una think say na only for football and class them get bench warmers?

What do u expect frm a bunch of pple who were selected rather than elected,they aint there for u and I,but themselves

enugu nko cause ive not even seen the yellow one that answers nnaji that i dont even know what he is doing there cause ive never seen him stand to debate

What are they saying.. what language are they speaking?? french or yoruba..


DAVID MARK HELP ME WITH MY GLASSES PLS..

Why is everyone acting surprised?

Those guys can't sppnsor shi.t

Threads like this one made me join Nairaland...just soliloquising.
And to think that many states in Nigeria still cannot pay the N18,000 minimum wage.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm o dikwa very risky.
so they have been oga lookers since.

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Sen adeyeye na only noise he feel make. Haba Sen Ojodu you fall my hands for d whole 2yrs. Hearing these kind of news everyday revolution is inevitable in this country.