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Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by Eruditor: 6:01pm On May 04, 2015
ADAMUdaCOWBOY:

He can only be suspended where there is a strong evidence warranting that. The plain truth is the heads of the RMFPC have been compromised by the NA. Put a Jega-like individual there, buhari can whisper to him what to do, if the NA attempts to sack him for no reason, there will be an uproar. Right now, the truth remains though that most Nigerians don't know about the commission.

I was sarcastically asking him that question because that is exactly what GEJ did with SLS even when the constitution or rather CBN act said something entirely different.

The lesson is that if the President wants to get something done, he will. OBJ increased the remunerations of the law makers same way. It wasn't the lawmakers that increased it themselves.

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Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by shegxi(m): 6:01pm On May 04, 2015
ammyluv2002:
Okay, i get but remember we are talking about Nigeria politics here
we onli need few honest men in d right positions and things we take shape my dear, we shldn't lose hope.

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Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by AhmedMustapha(m): 6:07pm On May 04, 2015
bayulll01:


Sometime when he barcanista speak you just wonder if the guy still have any more soul inside him,he's brain is fast deteriorating,heaven will help him
So you know those that have their souls intact?

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Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by humilitypays(m): 6:07pm On May 04, 2015
cool318:
Have been arguing this out with guys in my Hood.
I need more clarifications after listening to STV Boss yesterday, the Senator elect- Ben Bruce during the STV Awards, on how he wants to advocate for the slash in the Monstrous allowances given to Law makers.
How feasible is this, who has the power.
cc tit
jphilips
Obiageli
barcanista
et al
When will Nigerians understand that the problem we are facing as a nation today isn't the big salaries that are being paid to the senators and political office holders, but the exorbitant funds meant for national developmental projects which these politicians embezzle even after collecting Boko Haram salaries and allowances.

By virtue of knowing somebody who's a relative of a former lawmaker, I came to know that every senator gets a very huge fund for ecological development of his region; now how many senators use this fund to solve ecological and environmental problems in his/her senatorial zone? None of course!

To them, its their pocket money.

These senators and other political office holders loot funds meant for road construction, water projects, public school projects, agro-projects, power projects, unemployment projects, etc, and these funds run in billions and trillions of naira and sometimes dollars.

We should rather campaign for transparency and efficient execution of projects by politicians and not worry ourselves with their salaries which aren't the main problem we are facing.

Nigerians should fight for the abrupt killing of corruption amongst political office holders through the use of technology, and strict monitoring and prosecution/execution of any political office holder found guilty of looting 1 naira meant for execution of any project in Nigeria.

Remove every system that allows human interference and replace it with computer so that favouritism and the likes won't have chance.

Their salary is not our problem, Nigeria won't save up to 100billion from cutting their salary....and if u cut their salary and refuse to close down all corruption pipelines in governance, then they will loot without pity to cover the slashed salary!

We need strict laws and prosecution for corruption in Nigeria and not just salary cut for political office holders!

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Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by kinibigdeal(m): 6:10pm On May 04, 2015
let us take a look at the constitution.


Section 32 (d) of Part One of the Third Schedule of the 1999 Constitution empowers the RMAFC to determine the salaries and allowances of the political office holders.

It says that the commission shall "determine the remuneration appropriate for political office holders including the President,

Vice President, Governors, Deputy Governors, Ministers, Commissioners, Special Advisers, legislators and the holders of the office mentioned in sections 84 and 124 of this constitution." Section 32 (e) says that the commission shall discharge such other functions as are conferred on the commission by this constitution or any Act of the National Assembly." Sections 70 and 111 are some other relevant sections that empower the RMAFC to prepare the salary package.

In carrying out this constitutional mandate, the commission considers the following factors: (a) changes in the basic fundamentals of the Nigerian economy (b) external reserves (c) GDP growth rate (d) rate of inflation (e) correct placement of some categories of office holders that are wrongly placed in the old package (f) need to modify old salaries and allowances, and introduce new allowances that were not included in the old package (g) need for a living wage to ensure honesty and dignity of the office holders and (h) need to ensure compliance with the provision of Section 84 (3) and 124 (3) of the constitution

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Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by Suashi83: 6:15pm On May 04, 2015
Is there any prominent CSOs we can contact that can push this

How can we put Ben Bruce AND Dino Melaiye on their toes to push this in the NANS

Who knows people that know people that has president ear

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Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by millhouse: 6:16pm On May 04, 2015
good topic
Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by tunnary(m): 6:24pm On May 04, 2015
No wonder ex governors r trooping into the upper house cos they cant be dealt with

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Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by ricsman(m): 6:36pm On May 04, 2015
it will b done. but like GMB said don't expect miracle. its gonna take time. GMB will start it. laying a good foundation will straighten things
God help us
Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by Nobody: 6:36pm On May 04, 2015
oil price has that power

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Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by Nobody: 6:37pm On May 04, 2015
oil price has the constitutional power to...

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Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by nkemdi89(f): 6:49pm On May 04, 2015
shegxi:
it is a classical case of which comes first d hen or d egg? Reduce d salary and i bet u no one will campaign wit 250million.
Honestly if the postions are made less financial attractive it will reduce the interest on the positions.

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Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by ukandi1(m): 6:52pm On May 04, 2015
barcanista:
@OP: The Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission determines the remuneration of Public office holders. However, the commission is guided by law of the Parliament (NAsS). The allocation cannot be modified or reviewed by the President except the law establishing it is amended by members of National Assembly. In other words, they still have the key. The best a President can do is to persuade members of NASS to amend the law guiding RMAFC. Otherwise, he can only make empty rant. He can't even change what his VP, Ministers, SAs, SSAs or even himself earn. He can only decide to forfeit a percentage of his income. As for the NASS, I bet you that any bill to amend the law guiding RMAFC will be killed upon arrival.
kai.... By thinking about this, i am pained. Maybe we shud begin to operate a government system that has no national assembly members. We cannot continue to spend about 40% of our budget in servicing these rogues
Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by Abugab(m): 7:00pm On May 04, 2015
Na dem David Mark do this criminal law to dey clean out the treasury nay national budget annually. Most definitely they won't agree to amending that law and thus the ultimate power of the people must prevail. A mass protest against the national assembly nationwide on their criminal wages will make them slash it. They must start earning like civil servants; a senator equivalent to a federal Director and House of Rep member equivalent to an Assistant Director. The Fiscal and Revenue Commission should be made to draw up their salary scales. How many laws have they made for the nation since 1999 other than laws like this that criminally make them millionaires and billionaires. Nonsense....
Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by DonMekino(m): 7:22pm On May 04, 2015
the problem is not even their basic salaries... it is d side money they make....imagine if there is natural disaster... the committee on disaster mgt will be given billions n who gets d money at d end of d day or should I talk abt d greatest rip off of called Constituency Devt Fund...nna ehhhh odikwa egwu

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Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by ogdada: 7:26pm On May 04, 2015
The ppl,masses,nigerian.we revoke and go to the nass and demand what we want that all.

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Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by OkikiOluwa1(m): 7:52pm On May 04, 2015
barcanista:
@OP: The Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission determines the remuneration of Public office holders. However, the commission is guided by law of the Parliament (NAsS). The allocation cannot be modified or reviewed by the President except the law establishing it is amended by members of National Assembly. In other words, they still have the key. The best a President can do is to persuade members of NASS to amend the law guiding RMAFC. Otherwise, he can only make empty rant. He can't even change what his VP, Ministers, SAs, SSAs or even himself earn. He can only decide to forfeit a percentage of his income. As for the NASS, I bet you that any bill to amend the law guiding RMAFC will be killed upon arrival.
Hope they can review it & slash it.
Their salary is not justifying their work
Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by tit(f): 7:57pm On May 04, 2015
why should the salary of any worker be slashed?
what will you gain if you cut the peanuts they are paid?
are they dangote or mtn?

if you want money, nationalize dangote and mtn and all those companies milking poor nigerians dry.
Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by caxim04(m): 8:48pm On May 04, 2015
barcanista:
@OP: The Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission determines the remuneration of Public office holders. However, the commission is guided by law of the Parliament (NAsS). The allocation cannot be modified or reviewed by the President except the law establishing it is amended by members of National Assembly. In other words, they still have the key. The best a President can do is to persuade members of NASS to amend the law guiding RMAFC. Otherwise, he can only make empty rant. He can't even change what his VP, Ministers, SAs, SSAs or even himself earn. He can only decide to forfeit a percentage of his income. As for the NASS, I bet you that any bill to amend the law guiding RMAFC will be killed upon arrival.

You are correct but we here the senators pay is not as recomended by RMAFC.
Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by ayoromer: 8:49pm On May 04, 2015
buhari can not do anything because for d three times he lost election d money he borow for capaign n now he has win he need lawmakers to back him thief some money to pay his dept buhari can not fight corruption because he is very corrupt too if not wat bring him back again n again instead of been in d farm.aboki

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Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by Vikto: 8:58pm On May 04, 2015
The power is in the hands of the people of this country. When the people are ready, it will be done with automatic fiat.

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Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by Chinom(m): 9:27pm On May 04, 2015
torkaka:


first of all, the constitution super cedes any National Assembly act!! . . . . . . .

section 70, paragraph 32(d) of the 1999 constitution states;

"A member of the Senate or of the House of Representatives shall receive such salary and other allowances as Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission may determine"

. . . . . . . . .REVENUE MOBILISATION, ALLOCATION AND FISCAL COMMISSION ACT

PART II

Powers and functions of Commission

6. Powers of the Commission

(d) determine the remuneration appropriate to the holders of the offices as speci-
fied in Parts A and B of the First Schedule to this Act;

SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE
[Section 6 (1) (d)]

PART A

Offices

President, the Vice-President, Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice of the Supreme Court,
President of the Court of Appeal, Justice of the Court of Appeal, Chief Judge of the Federal
High Court, Judge of the Federal High Court, Judge of the Federal High Court in the Federal
Capital Territory, Grand Kadi and Kadi of the Sharai Court of Appeal of the Federal Capital
Territory, President and Judge of the Customary Court of Appeal of the Federal Capital Ter-
ritory, Inspector-General of Police, the Auditor-General of the Federation and the Chairman
and members of the following executive bodies, namely, the Code of Conduct Bureau, the
Federal Civil Service Commission, the National Electoral Commission, the Federal Judicial
Service Commission, the National Population Commission, the Revenue Mobilisation, Allo-
cation and Fiscal Commission, the Nigeria Police Council and the Public Complaints Com-
mission.

PART B

Offices

Governor, Chief Judge of a State and Judge of the High Court of a State, Grand Kadi and
Kaid of the Sharia Court of Appeal of a State, President and Judge of the Customary Court of
Appeal of a State, the Auditor-General of a State, Auditor-General of the Local Government
Councils of a State and Chairmen and members of the following bodies, that is to say, the
State Civil Service Commission, the State Judicial Service Commission and the State Local
Government Service Commission.
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Thank you for educating these phony intellectuals who post things here with such certainty that ordinary Nigerians are misinformed. If the RMAFC decides that members of the NA will be paid N10 a month, that's is what they will get. They are receiving the jumbo salaries and allowances because of endemic corruption and the lack of will from the executive branch. It is the president that appoints the chairman of the commission. The senate approves the appointment just like they approve the appointment of ministers and all other major appointments by the president. Most approvals are just routine. The well known " take a bow and leave ".
The president holds the key. GEJ appointed Jega and sent him to the NA for approval. For the same token, he could have appointed Orubebe or Oronto Douglas.
A strong willed president will slash that salary in a jiffy. The RMAFC is an arm of the executive.

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Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by Nobody: 9:38pm On May 04, 2015
Chinom:



Thank you for educating these phony intellectuals who post things here with such certainty that ordinary Nigerians are misinformed. If the RMAFC decides that members of the NA will be paid N10 a month, that's is what they will get. They are receiving the jumbo salaries and allowances because of endemic corruption and the lack of will from the executive branch. It is the president that appoints the chairman of the commission. The senate approves the appointment just like they approve the appointment of ministers and all other major appointments by the president. Most approvals are just routine. The well known " take a bow and leave ".
The president holds the key. GEJ appointed Jega and sent him to the NA for approval. For the same token, he could have appointed Orubebe or Oronto Douglas.
A strong willed president will slash that salary in a jiffy. The RMAFC is an arm of the executive.

. . . . .i couldn't have said this better. . . . .how some guys fall for these junk write ups amazes me. . . . .imagine someone saying 'act of parliament'. . . . .that against the constitution?

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Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by tk4rd: 9:46pm On May 04, 2015
FirstNigerian:
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g is for Gratitude
Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by kenoz(m): 10:27pm On May 04, 2015
Lemme get a seat first ....

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Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by 989900: 10:37pm On May 04, 2015
all the president need to do is lead by examples and organized a live chat and televised live and let people know that the all the money for development is being used to serviced our law makers we elected to make good law that will improvise our life,bet me they won't even need to appeal to any law makers before they do the right thing,cos we people voted for them,and we will remove them
Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by urheme: 11:05pm On May 04, 2015
barcanista:
@OP: The Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission determines the remuneration of Public office holders. However, the commission is guided by law of the Parliament (NAsS). The allocation cannot be modified or reviewed by the President except the law establishing it is amended by members of National Assembly. In other words, they still have the key. The best a President can do is to persuade members of NASS to amend the law guiding RMAFC. Otherwise, he can only make empty rant. He can't even change what his VP, Ministers, SAs, SSAs or even himself earn. He can only decide to forfeit a percentage of his income. As for the NASS, I bet you that any bill to amend the law guiding RMAFC will be killed upon arrival.

The legislative arm of govt is really useless to this nation, during the military era there was no legislative arm it was rather fused with the executive, let the bill be propose and if salary is not reviewed downward then the supreme military council has to rear its ugly head and make them disappear.
grin grin

How is that haa
Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by Nobody: 3:11am On May 05, 2015
Chinom:



Thank you for educating these phony intellectuals who post things here with such certainty that ordinary Nigerians are misinformed. If the RMAFC decides that members of the NA will be paid N10 a month, that's is what they will get. They are receiving the jumbo salaries and allowances because of endemic corruption and the lack of will from the executive branch. It is the president that appoints the chairman of the commission. The senate approves the appointment just like they approve the appointment of ministers and all other major appointments by the president. Most approvals are just routine. The well known " take a bow and leave ".
The president holds the key. GEJ appointed Jega and sent him to the NA for approval. For the same token, he could have appointed Orubebe or Oronto Douglas.
A strong willed president will slash that salary in a jiffy. The RMAFC is an arm of the executive.

I don't agree people posts things wilfully to give misinformation. People don't know much, Especially when it involves the Constitution that was designed to have up trapped in a place for decades.

This platform has taught me a whole lot of things, and that's down to the meaningful and intelligent posts made by posters. No one person knows it all.

Once I sense arrogance in a writeup, no matter how brilliantly it may have been written, I simply ignore it. You can make contributions without insulting people. Whatever you know was taught you! The peak of learning is patience and humility!

Having said that, we as masses must be ready to have some kind of showdown with these thieves or we shall continue to have our wealth and limited resources pillaged and stolen by a group of lazy, overfed fools.

Our media has made us to focus so much on the Presidency. The lawmakers are the greatest problem we have as a people. Even if GMB wants to have them cut their salaries, he will need us to shore up support for him.

Will join in the struggle? You guys need to change from abusing people in this forum!

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Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by Nobody: 5:21am On May 05, 2015
All lawmakers should have their salary slashed by 90%.

I has to happen, whether lawmakers agree or not.

The country has to tighten its belt so must lawmakers.

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Re: Who Has The Constitutional Power To Slash The Salaries Of Senators by Nobody: 5:22am On May 05, 2015
GenBuhari:
All lawmakers should have their salary slashed by 90%.

I has to happen, whether lawmakers agree or not.

The country has to tighten its belt so must lawmakers.
I agree

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