The Nation has unveiled report on how President Muhammadu Buhari other government officials earn every

According to report the Federal government spends N 1,126,614,234,434. 38 annually on salaries and allowances of political office holders by the administration, the 36 states and the 774 local government areas.

The new document titled “Policy Brief: Cost of Governance Series (2)” contained this information. It was compiled by the 43 civil society groups under the Citizens Wealth Platform.

The paper is dated October 2015 and has been presented to the government of President Buhari and the National Assembly.

The 17,774 beneficiaries comprise President, Vice President, Senate president, the House of Representatives Speaker, deputy speaker, ministers, governors, senators, members of the House of Representatives, judges, principal officers and members of the state Houses of Assembly, commissioners and local government chairmen and their councilors.

Salaries cost N94.959 billion and allowances take about N1,031,654,689,033.18 (N1.031trillion).

The paper reads in part: “The total number of persons benefiting from this fat remuneration in all tiers of government is put at 17, 474 and it costs the Federal Government N173.656billion every year.