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Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by HungerBAD: 5:21am On Oct 10, 2016
Senators and members of the House of Representatives share a total of N46billion annually as running cost, Daily Trust reports.
The amount represents over 40 percent of the National Assembly’s N115 billion annual budget.

The money, our correspondents gathered, was for the running cost, covering expenditures such as basic salary, vehicle maintenance, entertainment, utility, domestic staff, constituency, newspapers, recess allowance, wardrobe, personal assistant and housing.

Each of the 109 Senators gets N12million monthly while the 360 House members get N7million monthly totalling N3.8billion monthly.
A document obtained by Daily Trust showed that of the N115 billion, the House gets N47.2billion, Senate N30.2billion and the National Assembly bureaucracy N11.6billion.

The document showed also that N9.7billion was budgeted for legislative aides, N9.5billion for general service, N4.2billion for the National Institute for Legislative Studies (NILS), N1.9billion for the National Assembly Service Commission, N379million for Service Wide Votes, N138million for House Public Accounts Committee and N115million for the Senate Public Accounts Committee.

Based on the provision of the review remuneration package of political, public and judicial office holders by the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), 2009, a senator’s annual basic salary is N2.026m, while that of a member of the House is N1.985m.
Other allowances for senators, according to RMAFC, are accommodation, 150 percent of annual basic salary (N3.039m); furniture, N3.039m (150%); motor vehicle allowance, N5.066m (250%); motor vehicle maintenance, N1.013m (50%); personal assistant, N506,600 (25%); domestic staff, N1.013m (50%); entertainment, N405,280 (20%); utilities, N202,640 (25%); recess allowance, N202,640 (10%); newspaper/periodicals, N202,640 (10%); constituency allowance, N2.533m (125%) and severance gratuity, N6.079m (300%).

As for the members of the House, the RMAFC provides that accommodation is N2.977m, which is (150%) percent of annual basic salary; furniture, N744,454 (150%); motor vehicle allowance, N4.963 (250%); motor vehicle maintenance, N992,606 (50%); personal assistant, N496,303 (25%); domestic staff, N992,606 (50%); entertainment, N397,042 (20%); utilities, N198,521 (10%); recess allowance, N198,521 (10%); newspaper/periodicals, N198,521 (10%); constituency allowance, N1.488m (75%) and severance gratuity, N5.955m (300%).
Out of the allowances, furniture, motor vehicle allowance and severance gratuity, which stand at N14.184m and 11.662m for a senator and a member of the House respectively, are paid once in four years.

However, the other allowances, which are N9.118m and N7.940m for senators and reps respectively, are paid annually.
Multiple sources at both the Senate and House confirmed to our correspondents that the amount is being paid to the lawmakers.
One of the sources said the money was not free money but that it was meant for the running of constituency offices of the lawmakers.

“Yes, they are being paid the money but it is for the running of their constituency offices including hiring of staff, furnishing of the office, and travelling among others. Each of the lawmakers is expected to have an office in each of the local government areas in their district.
“It is not free money because it is being accounted for every month. They retire the money monthly and this serve as clearance for them to benefit for subsequent month, “the source said.


He, however expressed misgiving that most of the lawmakers do not have constituency offices thus, cutting them away from their constituents.
Some of the lawmakers contacted insisted that the money was part of their legitimate earnings but they declined further comment.
Contacted Senate Spokesperson, Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, declined comment, saying he was just returning from a village where 10 of his constituents died in a boat mishap.

Efforts to get the reaction of House spokesman, Abdulrazak Namdas (APC, Adamawa) were unsuccessful as his telephone was switched off. However, a staff of the House told our correspondent that the lawmaker was attending the Third Session of the Pan-African Parliament in Egypt.
Suspended former Chairman of the House committee on Appropriation, Abdulmumini Jibrin had claimed that the lawmakers got between N10 and N20million monthly as running cost.

Our correspondents report that during the House plenary on Wednesday, the issue of the lawmakers’ running costs nearly came up when Rep Ayo Omidiran (APC, Osun) raised a point of order on privileges, requesting Speaker Yakubu Dogara to allow the House dissolve into a closed-door session for her to explain.

But Dogara responded by saying it was a strange procedure for her to come up with such a request. He immediately summoned her to his seat, where the matter was ‘killed.’

It was later gathered that Omidiran, who was visibly angry, had received bashing from her constituents on the social media based on Jibrin’s allegations.

Our Correspondents report that the Senate President, Bukola Saraki is yet to fulfil his pledge to make the breakdown of the National Assembly budget public.

The National Assembly became a one-line item in 2010 under former Senate President, Senator David Mark.

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/senators-reps-share-n46-billion-annually/165977.html#X6AiJg8TdsJKceCQ.99

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Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by ehiage27(m): 5:25am On Oct 10, 2016
Mugu money spenders. ...Chia dis pple dey do profit sharing ratio... naija.....which way...

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Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by anonimi: 5:30am On Oct 10, 2016
HungerBAD:
He, however expressed misgiving that most of the lawmakers do not have constituency offices thus, cutting them away from their constituents.
Some of the lawmakers contacted insisted that the money was part of their legitimate earnings but they declined further comment.

It is now clear why sai bubu won't go after the rotten CORRUPTION of his majority Association of ProgreTHIEF Criminals, APC party members in both chambers of the NASS.
He is also just as GUILTY of bogus receipts just as they are.
QED!!!
The dictator who is going after our INDEPENDENT judiciary that can checkmate his excesses continues to demonstrate his keen understanding of esprit de corps LOOTERS just as he protected his "Saint" Abacha whom he claimed did NOT steal our money.
What a disappointment!


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Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by jeffizy(m): 5:30am On Oct 10, 2016
Getting out of recession will be faster if only the national assembly budget can be cut down to just sitting allowance.

I wonder if those making laws for the country ever think of how the common citizens are faring and how people feel when they read about all these payouts.

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Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by tukdi: 5:31am On Oct 10, 2016
Mtcheeeeew
Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by Progressive01(m): 5:41am On Oct 10, 2016
Tired of reading news about the scandalous amount these layabouts, who's work goes beyond nothing but tweeting, sitting in the chambers and reading newspapers while others sleep and snore, collect.

What I wanna see is a bell around the cat's neck.

Next!

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Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by maryjan8(f): 5:47am On Oct 10, 2016
While people are suffering, Non payment of salary everywhere

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Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by anonimi: 5:55am On Oct 10, 2016
jeffizy:
Getting out of recession will be faster if only the national assembly budget can be cut down to just sitting allowance.

I wonder if those making laws for the country ever think of how the common citizens are faring and how people feel when they read about all these payouts.

WE, the citizens, do not care enough otherwise we will be piling PRESSURE on them to stop STEALING from us.
Compare with the story of how American senators live and yet their country BAILS us out with aids and loans while providing JOBS to us since we cannot deal with our THIEVING legisLOOTERS. angry
Why are we Nigerians, who claim to be smart and sophisticated, in reality so dense and dumb
#OccupyNASS!



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The real 'Alpha House': Yes, this is where some Senators actually live

Paint peeling off the walls. Sheets for curtains. Broken blinds. A mangled wicker chair made settable with a board. An ancient stove with a giant hole. And there's also the pile of underwear in the living room.
What looks and feels like the most rundown frat house on campus is actually the Capitol Hill home of some of the most powerful men in Washington.
"Welcome to the Omega House," joked Dick Durbin, who is the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate.
"This is where I've lived for 31 years," boasted Chuck Schumer, the Senate's third-ranking Democrat.
It's hard to believe half the Senate Democratic leadership lives in these conditions, together. But they have for decades.
When Rep. George Miller, D-California, the third roommate and landlord, came in the door, he immediately ribbed the Senators as deadbeats.
"You guys get the rent from them?" asked Miller.
The house is so legendary that it inspired the new television series "Alpha House" on Amazon.com.
'How can this work?'
None of the real "Alpha House" members has seen the show, so they said. But they were all quick to say the characters -- who are Republicans -- are nothing like them.
"How can this work?" asked Durbin. "Republican Senators trying to make out they would live in a place like this."
They have a point, which may be why the creators of "Alpha House" cleaned up the fictitious home.
Maybe it's that life is stranger than fiction. Or, more likely, no one would believe prominent politicians would live the way they do in the real Alpha House.
"Wait a minute!" exclaimed Miller, the owner, when we pointed that out.
But he was feigning offense. Thirty seconds with the three and it is clear they revel in the notoriety of their living conditions.
Still, it has been years since they all gathered for this kind of interview and tour of the Capitol Hill row house.
The odd living arrangement began in the early '80s -- when Miller's family decided they no longer wanted to live in D.C., and moved back to the California district he represents.
Miller was living in the house alone until one night when there was a snowstorm and former Democratic Rep. Marty Russo of Illinois stayed over so he could walk to the Capitol.
They decided to make it permanent since it was convenient. They soon convinced Schumer, a House member at the time, to move in.
They had other roommates over the years that have since retired or been defeated, including former CIA Director and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, when he was in Congress.
But what is most striking about the place, aside from the mess, is that it's a time warp. They've done virtually nothing to update since Miller's family left three decades ago.
Jackson Browne and the Beatles
Records -- real vinyl -- line the bookshelf. One of them was Jackson Browne's "The Pretender," which came out in 1976. Another was an old Beatles album.
"The same exact records are there now as the day I moved in, 1982, 31 years ago," Schumer said.
Then there are the dust-covered books that were bestsellers in the early '80s.
The furniture is a hodgepodge of what the lawmakers salvaged from various relatives and other parts of their lives.
Durbin took one of the couches from his son, who was about to throw it out.
"He put it out in the trash -- it had to be 12, 14 years ago -- and I said it's better than anything we have. So we reclaimed it," Durbin recalled.
He said the coffee table is 46 years old -- the first piece of furniture Durbin and his wife bought when they were married.
"We're not afraid of the burglars," Miller said, "because we've been burgled twice and they took nothing."
The living room, virtually the only room on the first floor of the house, also serves as Schumer's bedroom. But "bedroom" is a generous term.
He sleeps on a mattress next to the kitchen. He half-made his bed for our visit, which Durbin said was a lot more effort than Schumer usually makes.
"I spruced it up for your coming here," joked Schumer.

Too much information

There is no bathroom on the first floor, so Schumer has to use one on the second floor, where Miller and Durbin have actual bedrooms, with doors.
"When you're my age, at four in the morning to trudge up the stairs to the bathroom, it's no picnic," Schumer shared.
Next to his mattress is a door to the outside, with broken and bent blinds.
"I can see the weather without having to get out of bed," Schumer said. "It's a special effect."
His ties are strewn over an old couch, which serves as his makeshift closet.
And then, there's the kitchen.
The freezer doesn't work. The refrigerator is a sight to behold, but exactly what you would imagine based on the rest of the house: beer cans and old food, including a baguette so hard that Schumer grabbed it and demonstrated how you can use it as a weapon.
The stovetop has a giant hole, which Miller said, perhaps in jest, was made by the rats they've found in the house -- which they still have traps around to catch.
"I thought the rats were in the Senate. I didn't know they came to the House," Miller said without missing a beat.
Since the only visible cookware is a kettle so rusty and old that Miller joked it was a gift from Ben Franklin, the three men resort to the easiest meal possible: cold cereal.
The counter is covered with bulk boxes of Raisin Bran, Mini-Wheats and Kashi. And there is a giant plastic bag of sweetener, which looks like it has been swiped from various fundraisers along the way.
"I prefer Raisin Bran. But I like the Mini-Wheats," Durbin said.
"When you come home late at night and you have to still stay up to work, my incentive? Some people like a nice, you know, jigger of scotch. Mine is Raisin Bran. It keeps me up and I read the newspapers," Schumer said.

Early risers

What is a typical day in the house like?
Durbin is usually the first one up and out at 5:30 a.m. when he goes to the gym. Next is Miller, who usually takes a morning walk around the monuments.
"They leave while I'm sleeping. We do it by design. We hate each other," Schumer said, laughing.

In all seriousness, they don't do much hanging out together here. Unlike the "Alpha House" characters, the real lawmakers are rarely home at the same time.
"He comes in at 12 o'clock at night talking on his cell phone," Miller said of Schumer. "Half his staff must be in Hawaii for picking up the phone at midnight."
It is hard to believe such high-profile politicians live in these conditions.
"When my wife comes, she will not stay here," Schumer confessed.
What helps make it work is that [size=13pt]they're only in Washington about three nights a week.[/size]
And, Miller said, they're good friends.
"We all have different schedules. We all have different interests. You can come back here. You can catch up with one another. You can catch up with the House and the Senate. We know one another's families, so you know what the kids are doing. You know what the grandkids are doing," Miller said.
"I might add location, location, location," Durbin interjected. The house is just blocks from the Capitol.
"It is close to where we work. And it's easy to get back and forth, and I think that has spoiled us," Durbin said.
Durbin sums up another reason he's lived here for 21 years, and Schumer for 31, this way:
"We love it. It's home."

From: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/04/politics/real-alpha-house/

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Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by SamuelAnyawu(m): 5:56am On Oct 10, 2016
grin grin grin grin
Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by BeeBeeOoh(m): 6:00am On Oct 10, 2016
Of what importance are these NASS to Nigeria & Nigerians??


Somebody Help angry angry


What sort of country is this hell called Nigeria?? #igiveup

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Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by ORACLE1975(m): 6:07am On Oct 10, 2016
too bad
Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by Boleyndynasty2(f): 6:12am On Oct 10, 2016
Paying billions for these men to sit and snore in the name of making laws

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Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by anonimi: 6:13am On Oct 10, 2016
Progressive01:
Tired of reading news about the scandalous amount these layabouts, who's work goes beyond nothing but tweeting, sitting in the chambers and reading newspapers while others sleep and snore, collect.

What I wanna see is a bell around the cat's neck.

Next!

Your idol is busy putting a bell around the neck of judges who should checkmate his excesses instead of dealing with his majority party men in the chambers to stop CORRUPTLY enriching themselves at our expense, depriving us of much needed money for:

- adequately staffed and properly equipped schools for ALL our children.
- tap water.
- clinics and hospitals that are well equipped and adequately staffed.
- good roads that are well MAINTAINED.
- railways

that would create JOBS for our unemployed youths.


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Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by DrRasheed: 6:16am On Oct 10, 2016
Bunch of idiots looting the nation per second. I recommend military rule for the dying nation.
Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by anonimi: 6:21am On Oct 10, 2016
maryjan8:
While people are suffering,
Non payment of salary everywhere

That is how SMART Nigerians roll. grin
We will rather beg our SINators and representaTHIEVES for N100,000 like that youth corper on twitter.
These legisLOOTERS should not receive more than N1,000,000 (total) from us, which is already way more than the salary of the highest paid civil servant in our country.
When shall we be WISE


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Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by anonimi: 6:26am On Oct 10, 2016
DrRasheed:
Bunch of idiots looting the nation per second. I recommend military rule for the dying nation.

Would you recommend chopping off your head because you have headache
Would you?


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Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by anonimi: 6:28am On Oct 10, 2016
ORACLE1975:
too bad

Anything else?

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Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by bayelsaowei(m): 6:36am On Oct 10, 2016
We have to restructure the goddamn nation..but many persons no go gree..
Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by bayelsaowei(m): 6:56am On Oct 10, 2016
DrRasheed:
Bunch of idiots looting the nation per second. I recommend military rule for the dying nation.
no..military rule will make the leader corrupt to the core..we need a restructuring..core restructuring..

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Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by Nobody: 7:13am On Oct 10, 2016
Clueless 1
Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by mrvitalis(m): 7:29am On Oct 10, 2016
Seriously this is bad.. really bad

Why are people this wicked... 45bn is a lot of money

This can produce over 14 million bags of rice
This can produce over 1 Million ton of wheat
This can cultivate over 200,000 heactres of tropical sugar beets....
Each of this ventures can employ over 200,000 people each


There is a big problem in Nigeria
Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by Yannny: 8:16am On Oct 10, 2016
THAT IS WHY THE COUNTRY IS NOT PROGRESSING. WHEN THERE IS TOO MUCH OF ENJOYMENT IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by bastien: 8:17am On Oct 10, 2016
What my business?
Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by Victorakats(m): 8:17am On Oct 10, 2016
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Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by legendte(m): 8:17am On Oct 10, 2016
I am interested in knowing how much general casandra takes annually for doing nothing.
Fulani herdsmen have killed over 1000 people since he came in yet he considers IPOB as a bigger treat. He has never mentioned them in any of his rotten speeches.

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Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by eluquenson(m): 8:18am On Oct 10, 2016
Pathetic embarassed

Nigeria is doomed, i hope one day we have revolution in this country, we can't continue like this.

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Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by Sylvarresta(m): 8:18am On Oct 10, 2016
Don't worry, after the judiciary the anti corruption crusade will be move to the national assembly, Nigeria must be cleansed by fire by force

#IstandwithBuhari

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Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by Tolubory(m): 8:21am On Oct 10, 2016
HungerBAD:


http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/senators-reps-share-n46-billion-annually/165977.html#X6AiJg8TdsJKceCQ.99

All this kind of Story can make man to get Heart attack,
Because you will continue to Calculate and Calculate and Calculate and Calculate ....................

Oh!!!!
Am tired of all this......
Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by Sylvarresta(m): 8:23am On Oct 10, 2016
legendte:
I am interested in knowing how much general casandra takes annually for doing nothing.
Fulani herdsmen have killed over 1000 people since he came in yet he considers IPOB as a bigger treat. He has never mentioned them in any of his rotten speeches.
Wailer spotted, you never asked GEJ how much he took home annually for heading the gathering of looters

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Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by anonimi: 8:24am On Oct 10, 2016
Sylvarresta:
Don't worry, after the judiciary the anti corruption crusade will be move to the national assembly, Nigeria must be cleansed by fire by force

#IstandwithBuhari

Who will clean the PRESIDENT's own corruption



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Re: Senators, Reps Share N46 Billion Annually- Daily Trust by veekid(m): 8:29am On Oct 10, 2016
In Oliver Queen's voice .......... buhari!!!!you have failed this nation

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