In their four years of making law, Nigerian lawmakers managed to pass into law, only 106 out of 1, 063 bills brought before them, despite spending N600billion within the period. It therefore means N5.77 billion was spent by the lawmakers to pass one bill. Despite dwindling government revenue due to fall in crude oil price, which forced the government to cut down spending on major sector of the economy, the lawmakers have insisted that not a dine will be removed from their annual N150 billion budget.

The output of the Nigerian legislature is miserable when compared with their counterparts in the U.S. Congress which passed 29​7 ​just between 2013 and 2014, one of the lowest figure by the congress, as the two chambers passed 604 in just 1999, and 460 between 2007 and 2008. Yet, Nigerian lawmakers are the highest paid, pocketing several illegal allowances including the huge quarterly allowances nearly $1m (N220m) per lawmaker in a year.


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Source: http://thesummary.com.ng/index.php/national-news/item/819-nigeria-lawmakers-spend-n5-77-billion-to-pass-a-bill-each

am not surprised

what a waste