It's good to hear they will reduce salaries and allowances. They also need to do away with giving them money for so called community projects. Legislators should not be in the business of doing projects. That's why we have local governments. It's just an avenue for embezzlement.
And we don't really need a bicameral legislature. Only one house should be enough for a poor country like Nigeria.

senier007:

Saraki, who stated this on his Twitter handle yesterday after meeting with the RMAFC boss, said the annual wardrobe allowance for each senator is N506,600 per annum, about N2.25 million ‎for their four-year tenure.

Source: http://leadership.ng/news/441312/nass-n9bn-fallout-well-reduce-our-salaries-allowances-saraki

This is better, that N9b

fallacy upon fallacy............i reserve my comment.......

Pavore9:
The social media itself will be the real opposition party where no one need a card to belong. They collect constituency funds on our behalf and we all belong to a constituency, so we all owe ourselves the obligation to mark them well, we should make effort to know how much was allocated and where it is being applied, should the money get missing in action, na to shout ole! ole! on top social media!

I like this!

TopWinner:
Is there no way to totally dissolve this present cabal of the NASS?

Weed alert!!! Weed!! Weed!

PassingShot:

Does Buhari have the power to stop any money provided for in 2015 budget that was already passed by the last assembly?

He doesn't have that constitutional power, boy.

Please seek knowledge and education of how things work?

So he is NO LONGER a strong man he was packaged & sold as

Interesting.

How is 419 defined again?


BTW, have you heard of budget amendment

You can only foool mumus like you with your INVALID excuses for the old pensioner!





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anonimi:


So he is NO LONGER a strong man he was packaged & sold as

Interesting.

How is 419 defined again?


BTW, have you heard of budget amendment

You can only foool mumus like you with your INVALID excuses for the old pensioner!

YOU ARE NOT MAKING SENSE.

You won't get any further attention from me henceforth.

Saraki u ar a liar

PassingShot:
I still have to blame GEJ and his last administration for this particular nonsense we have at our hand.

The 2015 budget which provided for this bogus allowances was prepared and passed during a time of crisis already in Nigeria. It was a time when many states and even the FG was already finding it very difficult to meet their financial commitments. As such, common economic sense should have prevailed by reducing all recurrent expenses as much as possible (at least by 40%).

What we got instead was to reduce capital expenditure further so that it became about 10% of our national budget while "nothing" happened to the recurrent expenses! To GEJ and his cohorts, they didn't care as far as they got bank alert for fat cash credit in their account. Such is the economic wizardry of NOI and GEJ that we couldn't even increase our savings in the four years that crude sold for above $100 per barrel on the average.

But as they say, "GEJ is a good man BUT a very bad administrator". Thankfully, change is here.

You just do not know how things work.

Slash recurrent expenses by 40%? Do you know the composition of the recurrent expenses?

The 2015 budget provided for bogus allowances?

You need help.

ArabianPrince:
Really!!! Wardrobe allowance for the rich when there are loads of women and children hungry and in need of clothings. Rich getting richer. SHAME.

am telling you. why cant they just scrap it even. dont they have cloths and cars already. why are they senators. the have money and they keep allocating more money to themselves. this morning on channels tv, i saw the IDP camp in Edo state, with Children from the North, displaced by Boko Haram. why cant they channel the money to do better things, this our leaders are insensitive o. they dont feel the pain poor people feel. i just cant wait to see the real angry youths, rise up to this evil men in NASS.

PassingShot:

Does Buhari have the power to stop any money provided for in 2015 budget that was already passed by the last assembly?

He doesn't have that constitutional power, boy.

Please seek knowledge and education of how things work?

Buhari has the power to CANCEL and STOP all monies provided for in the 2015 budget except those allocated to the Legislature and Judiciary. That is how far his power can go.

That means it is you who do not know how things work.

See this cat o. That figure he's quoting is what they get per month! this guy think say we be mumu.

We are wiser than that. That wardrobe allowance should be totally eradicated

Slynonny:
My Husband Buhari the Daura President is a failure to MANHOOD.
#Aisha_Buhari_d_Prostitute.

you. Are just a goat!!

kaboninc:


Buhari has the power to CANCEL and STOP all monies provided for in the 2015 budget except those allocated to the Legislature and Judiciary. That is how far his power can go.

That means it is you who do not know how things work.

And which monies are we talking about here if not the Legislature's?

Please don't reduce it.

Wardrope allowance 4 what? Abeg they should just scrap it. In a country where govt can't pay workers, massive unemployment;some people are talking of wardrope what Nonsense.

Even if they reduce the allowance to N10,000,they will still steal billions of dollars from contracts.

.

handsomeclouds:
Big lie

All these while i had always known that the news going round as regards billions of naira as wardrobe allowance is unfounded.

We Nigerians must learn to wait for clarifcation before drawing conclusions.

PassingShot:

And which monies are we talking about here if not the Legislature's?

Were you referring to monies allocated to only the Legislature when you asked this:

PassingShot:

Does Buhari have the power to stop any money provided for in 2015 budget that was already passed by the last assembly?

He doesn't have that constitutional power, boy.

Naija! See allowance.

Slynonny:
My Husband Buhari the Daura President is a failure to MANHOOD.
#Aisha_Buhari_d_Prostitute.

Shoro niyen?

Aren't Nigerians toothless bulldogs. The Arab spring started from social media sites and got powerful leaders overthrown and sent to prison.
Here in Nigeria after all the ranting on nairaland and social media, we cobtinue to suffer without even going out to protest. Can't the NLC embark on strike to address injustices in government like NASS rumineration.

jaysniggs:
My people, wake up from your foolish slumber, stand up and be alert.
Before the election most of us were screaming "change", now is this among the change we yearned for?
Tinubu who was doing all the strategic planning didn't tell his wife not to collect her share of the 9 billion plus other allowances.
The God forsaken people we voted for are turning a blind eye to our people.

How long is it going to continue like this?
How long are we going to keep feeding these people for doing almost nothing?


I've said it times without number, these people are trying to remove the Nigerian middle class citizens, hereby putting a very wide gap between the rich and the poor!

They are all united because of the money, ragardleSs of whatever party affiliation.
Our basic problems are our elite and the west!
Once we can get a set of people who will take along the masses and disregard the western policies.

We need a little bit of radicalism
Someone called it "civil disobedience"
Call it whatever you want!
We can't keep feeding a house that is full of gluttons who aren't in turn giving us back anything.

Nigerians Wake Up!
This is 2015!
What plans do we have for our generations?
If we don't make moves no one would.

is TINUBU the major problem you have?

Shine1177:
Naija! See allowance.

That they get monthly?. How many domestic helps for instance do the have that earn #1.5million?.

INTROVERT:
That's alright but hope they won't be milking ministers, DGs of agencies, commission's who come for budget approvals.

The milking is, unfortunately, inevitable. And it's not just during budget approval exercise but also during oversight function.

we dey watch una

Saraki has been a Senator for 4 years, yet he claimed to have called the RMFAC into his office in order to confirm how much each Senator receives as clothing allowance.

So the he does not know the allowance he has been pocketing all these years Barau!

They just want to cover up things so that the public outrage will die down.


The big question is why are we paying N150 billion to feed and cloth 450 senators and reps when the average Nigerian lives on less than $5 per day.


Unbelievable country.

Slynonny:
My Husband Buhari the Daura President is a failure to MANHOOD.
#Aisha_Buhari_d_Prostitute.

My brother, your statement is very disturbing.

NA milking d country since 1759,

How can annual allowance be 507,000 haba, he wan wear 714 TM shirts in a year? 365 days in a year and 714 TM shirts with 507,000 naira , its too much