cash crunch has hit the House of Representatives, a fall-out of the dwindling financial state of the country.

The development forced the leadership of the House on Tuesday to reduce the due allowances of members.

Findings showed that each member was entitled to N18m as part of their first pay package in the Eighth Assembly to settle down for legislative duties.

However, the money included a provision for car loan, repayable before the expiration of the current tenure in 2019.

The PUNCH gathered that instead of the N18m, members would only get N10m in the interim, “pending when the financial situation of the House will improve.”

One senior official said, “Built into the N18m is furniture allowance, housing and car loan.

“But right now, only N10m can get to members. The car loan in particular is off.

“What this means is that there is no provision for car loan for now.”

Findings indicated that the Speaker of the House, Mr. Yakubu Dogara, broke the news to grumbling members during a closed-door session on Tuesday.

The closed-door, which was the first activity of the House on Tuesday, started soon after Dogara entered the chamber.

He immediately called for the closed-door, which lasted for over one hour.

At the session, he was said to have taken time to explain the financial situation of the legislature to members and why it was not possible to pay the N18m.

“The executive session dwelt on the issue of the due allowances. These are some of the allowances due to the members.

“The meeting was called to make these explanations to avoid a situation whereby people may think that they have been short-changed.

“The money is due this week and the Speaker made the point that it was important to brief them on their expectations “, another source stated.

However, when his views were sought, former House Deputy Leader, Mr. Leo Ogor, claimed that the meeting only deliberated on the lean financial state of the federal and state governments.

He said members discussed the inability of some state governments to “pay salaries for a number of months” with a view to seeking possible solutions to the problem.

“Basically, the meeting was on the issue of salaries owed state workers and all that,” he added.

But, a reliable official informed The PUNCH that Ogor used the issue of salaries in the states to “divert attention because that was only used at the meeting to cite and assemble the financial state of the country.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/reps-to-get-n10m-each-out-of-n18m-allowances/

This land belongs to Genea.

Na wah oo

they ain't gat no choice@okene boy for real,my pocket my concern

Grumbling?

Ndi ara

Na wah ooo....Almost da same amount Al wajud jez spent to complete one of his commercial truck nd he dy complain da money ez 2much,na da same amount some pple dy share to cloth themselves.....

In da next 3month nw dem go stil receive alert of 60mil for constituency project nd dey wnt spent 10mil there.

Why 10 million?

You guys can do better than this. Make it 2 million, i will start taking you people serious.

Thieves!

[size=15]ten million is still much, all we are saying is that they should scrap the wardrobe allowance if they cant manage 10 thousand naira per month[/size]

Dorrobucci:
Why 10 million?

You guys can do better than this. Make it 2 million, i will start taking you people serious.

Thieves!

They are just toying with nigerians, why not reduce it to 1million or even scrap it These kids are the one's who deserve wardrobe allowance and not our selfish legislathieves...Yeye dey smell

Upon all the shouting and wailing, dem still no reduce the money to about 300,000.
We have been scamed

Public service isn't madatory, if these legislators can't function on minum wage, they should resign.
Their are pple out there that would and can also offer our nation more for little or nothing.

#thisBOLLOCKSmustSTOP.

Reps from state where the workers are owed salary shouldnt get anything but donate everything to the populace of their home state

OREMUSSANCTUS:
This land belongs to Genea.

tnx ma sweet,am coming wit ma tipper of sand and blocks

The 10m is even too much, I don't see any reason they should collect a penny for Wardrobe allowance if such provisions are not made for other Nigerian workers. Bunch of useless people.

The Abuja Property Market is not helping matters

Members are giving aprox 4M/5M for Housing.

To rent a 4bed room with bq and services in Maitama/Asokoro/Wuse is about 6M/7M for a good house

eliment:
The 10m is even too much, I don't see any reason they should collect a penny for Wardrobe allowance if such provisions are not made for other Nigerian workers. Bunch of useless people.

They put on cloth durin campaign....y wardrobe allowance again?