chris51:
I have always said that our problem is not the President. Our problem is NASS. The money and allowances that each one of them earns is more that salary for thousands of unemployed youths.

If youths and masses can come together and say that NASS should be scrapped, the nation would benefit from it.

We are tired of these looters who call themselves law makers

comos:
Buhari stole more than all of them combined

DanDeeBoss:
Lol... Advanced thieves... Stealing before our eyes and nothing is being done by the eagle, watchdog.... Chaii, Nigeria will be backward if this continues.....

Strangebuttrue:
Allah akbomb

meromero11:


Nothing can be done about looting because the masses are always on the side of the looters and against the security agencies. Arrest them, you say victimization. Detain them and you hear the same masses who are being protected from these looters shout human right violation. Let it continue till hunger ravage the land irreversibly.

Racoon:
Executive legislative and juducial corruption.Who will now probe these criminals on both sides.EFCC, ICPC, police are all useless.

ManirBK:
Sir, it's tym to dust your government textbook nd read up separation of power?

jumper524:
heard thier basic salary according to shehu sani is N750,000 and that 13million is constiyuency allowance..
so if your constituency senator is not showing the effect of that N13million.
you just need to do the needfull come 2019 and also try to enlighten those around you on the happenings..

zombieTRACKER:


We need to support restructuring... The foundation is faulty.. It's not about Buhari or Jonathan..They can't do anything about it..

Racoon:


[b]Ask Buhari.He holds the undisputed record of putting Nigeria into recession on two occasion.Meanwhile all these supposed agencies of govt.have been infected with the APC bug under this regime hence useless & contributing to the system rot. [/b]

ManirBK:
U Should Stop Calling Them House Of Assembly, Rather House Of Thieves. Simple.

ManirBK:
Bross u have a point, but the issue is dat this is democracy and there should be no interference in both arm of the govt , the president has little power on this , the problem of this country is d the NASS and the Judiciary , a system where the president take home 2m and a senator get almost 25m , a system where we have over 108 senators and 380 reps member working only for two weeks and going on holiday for two months!
very annoying!

ManirBK:
i've never seen a fiercely corrupt national assembly than our own here in Nigeria.They know nothing but to loot and defraud.Kudos to Ex-CBN governor Sanusi Lamido and Sen. Shehu Sani for making it frank and transparent about what the National assembly is all about concerning mismanagement of public funds and illegal expenditure.

ManirBK:
About N3.5 billion was misappropriated in 2016 by the management of the National Assembly, an audit report has revealed.
The monies were siphoned through various schemes such as failure to retire advances, financial documentation irregularities, excess payment for goods, controversial purchases and diversion of funds.
These findings were contained in the 2016 annual audit report released by the Auditor General of the Federation.
The report, released this year, noted how the agency failed to provide receipts, vouchers or contract documents for many transactions made in 2016.
As Senate President, Mr Saraki heads the overall institution of the National Assembly.
Some other key officials in the National Assembly with direct or oversight management responsibilities include the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; Clerk of the National Assembly, Mohammed Omolori; Chairman of the National Assembly Service Commission, Adamu Fika; and Director General of the National Institute of Legislative Studies, Ladi Hamalai. Some of them were directly indicted n the report.
INDICTMENT
During the audit of the accounting records maintained at the National Assembly and its agencies, at the management section, under the General Services, it was revealed that capital account payment vouchers for amounts totalling N417 million (N417,312,538.79), raised for settlement of some contractors, were without vital supporting documents, ”a financial decision that depicts violation of Financial Regulation which provides that all vouchers shall contain full particulars of each service as to enable them to be checked without reference to any other document and will invariably be supported by relevant documents.”
“The Clerk to the National Assembly, Mohammed Sani Omolori, should produce the supporting documents to the payment vouchers or recover the amount in question from the contractors,” the auditor ruled.
Also, during the audit of staff salary accounts, 37 payment vouchers with amounts to N67 million (N66,713,355) were observed to have been paid between January and June, 2016 for items not related to personnel cost.
The payees in the cashbook also did not correspond with those in the bank statement. This irregularity is a violation of Financial Regulation which states that “Expenditure shall strictly be classified in accordance with the estimates and votes must be applied only to the purpose for which the money is provided. Expenditure incorrectly charged to a vote shall be disallowed.”
“The sum of N66,713,355.08 being irregular expenditure should be recovered from the officer who approved the payments from the personnel vote,” the auditor instructed.
Review Of Expenditure
During the review of documents of capital expenditure vote by the auditor, it was discovered that payments totalling N116 million (N116,162,522.60) were made between April and June, 2016 to some contractors for various jobs carried out, without raising payment vouchers.
This contravenes the provisions of Financial Regulation which state that under no circumstance shall money be paid for services, for which a voucher has not been raised.
”The Clerk to the National Assembly should produce the payment vouchers for examination,” the report added.
Also, a total sum of N57 million deducted from various contract payments in respect of Withholding Tax and Value Added Tax was without evidence of remittance to the tax authorities.
The clerk was asked to produce the acknowledgement receipts from the Federal Inland Revenue Service for verification. He was stated, in the report ”to have ignored the auditor on these issues.”
‘Watery Documentation’
The general services account of the National Assembly was depleted by about N751 million on account of “watery financial documentations” and failure of staff to retire advances according to the report.
In the documents, it was revealed that N625 million was granted to the Constitution Review Committee through four payment vouchers between March and June 2016. These were not supported with relevant documents and details of the expenses.READ MORE
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/293579-how-national-assembly-mismanaged-billions-of-naira-through-illegal-expenditures-fraud-audit-report.html

ManirBK:
But on a serious note, why should one Senator alone bag over N13m as monthly salary in a country where over 88,000,000 people are leaving below poverty line!