The National Assembly is like half of Nigeria's problem .

Has anyone pondered to the amount of money that these people spent to get there. Did Serap pay for their nomination forms? Did budgit pay for the delegates that made them win the primaries? Did those 1522 folks vote for them freely to make them win? What about the vote buying, the essential commodities that were shared, was it produced by EIE? Instead of making the electoral process to be devoid of cash so that money will not be a big factor in determining who is eligible for the election, they are wasting time antagonising those people who invested in Nigeria's democracy.

Stay here and be supporting Kunu guzzling terrorist. It doesn't make your life better. They are all thieves

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All these in 3days for 20k. You people are heartless oh!

ndi osochi egbu, now that its my turn to chop.

I HOPE OUR GOVERNMENT/THOSE AT THE CORRIDORS OF POWER WILL CONSIDER THE BELOW OR SIMILAR TO THE BELOW ON DAY


THE Economist VIEW on MINIMUM WAGE!

1. Abolish SECURITY VOTE in NIGERIA. Nigeria will pay N45,000 minimum wage comfortably.

2. a) Abolish CONSTITUENCY PROJECT FUNDS

b) Reduce no of ADVISERS to SENATE PRES(2), HOUSE SPEAKER(2), GOVs(4), PRESIDENT(5), VP(2)

c) Reduce current ALL Political Office Holders PAY CHEQUES by 51.5%, without exception

d) Do away with special remuneration to POLITICAL ADVISERS & PUBLIC SERVANTS eg; Purchase of Private Vehicles, Houses, granting Govt paid Vacations, paying for 1st & Business Class Transportations, etc, etc...

e) Abolish payment of OVERSEAS MEDICAL BILLS for Political Office Holders

f) Eliminate PRIVATE PRACTICE in public workforce

g) Eliminate participation of Public Workforce in Partisan Politics

h) Institute EMPLOYMENT BY MERIT, and eliminate UNDEREMPLOYMENT

i) Review and eliminate allocation of Govt paid POLITICAL AIDES & SUPPORT STAFF to Political Office Holders.

With (1) + (2) Nigeria would pay a minimum wage of N65,000 comfortably

3. Move Nigeria MORE to Private Sector Driven Economy

a) Privatise ALL of Federal Govt PARASTATALS & reduce Federal Direct Funded AGENCIES to 68% of the present.

b) Privatise ALL of STATE Govt PARASTATALS & reduce State Direct Funded AGENCIES to 19% of the present.

c) Reduce current DIRECT LABOUR JOB participation by 49%

d) Encourage more Working Hours until Nigerian economic stabilizes

e) Discourage UNIONISM in Public Workforce

With (1) + (2) + (3), Nigeria would pay a minimum wage of N101,500 comfortably.

4) Institute DEATH PENALTY to proven THEFT OF PUBLIC FUNDS no matter how little, and LIFE Jail Sentences for COLLABORATORS.

With (1) + (2) + (3) & (4), Nigeria would pay a minimum wage of N203,500 comfortably.

zone51:


All these in 3days for 20k. You people are heartless oh!

dont mind them..criminals them..

I'm in support of this but this suit is bound to fail 8n court because when d law says their pay should be reviewed based on economic realities it means reviewed upward

If APC is truly fighting corruption, this is a good opportunity for them, they own the NASS, they should tell the government they dont want it or better still enact a law to scrap the package.

gratiaeo:
Why have we not talked about President and vice president welcome package. At least let the president lead by example

This is you being very foolish (no apologies)...Why do we have dolts defending and giving reason for every rubbish perpetrated by the ruling class? Are you mad?

This is the starting point, I expect you and every Nigerian out there to applaud this move and as much pressurize the judiciary to rule against them but no, you are towing the path of the average Nigerian. It starts from somewhere.

Amowap2019:
May God Almighty Punish Those people wey wan collect/Share dis money

Millions of Nigerians are there suffering but you gat nothing/ Vision to do About it;

30K Minimum wage...na still dey debate say you no fit pay

work Never start for una...Una wan Share billions among Una self



So Selfish and Vision less Set of Leaders.

May Allah Punish una Again

See your life,may God punish you also for earning a salary or profit from your business. Always hating,why u no buy form contest. Start insulting from executive,to states LGA ,private companies etc. Stop being a stooge and self centered.

StrikeBack:
Welcome bonus
Sitting allowance
Sleeping allowance
Oversight function allowance
Committee allowance
Security staff allowance
Personal staff allowance
Car allowance
Furniture allowance

Damn

Plus budget padding and constituency projects.

Petition in order for them to get their own share

Almost all Nigerians are very corrupt not just corrupt

Welcome package hmm

Suffering and smiling

Here we go again, you won't see these lots talk about party, religion or region, they are united in looting our natural resources to almost zero.

Yet, Ovie, ola, Bayo, chukwudi and Preye are busy killing themselves because of what again?

Abi Saraki still dey this house.Kai so Saraki no be issue.

God punish this people

Toh

BUSHHUNTER:
And dem dey pay BMC 30k

and u can see that BMCs are working tirelessly without seize.. Infact some will soon attack u now.. Perhaps call u ipob, afonja or even yoloba muslim there are names for anyone against bad government in Nigeria and I'm happy to have at a time in my life called those names because I feel good knowing I can't easily sway brainwashed humans especially the ones who are low life scums and uneducated...

spot-on! the shithole is long overdue for a factory reset!

schamch:
#10 mil. monthly for senate & #9 mil. monthly for reps ! this is outrageous outrageous. and the deceitful govt. is busy shamelessly giving #10k loan to traders. Why are we so wicked in this country.

Monthly salary + allowances is more than that - what you quoted is the welcome package to secure accommodation and furnishings...

Same noise no action...

They'll make same noise four years from now..

While minimum wage is pegged at 30K, and they claim no funds to make payments..........


Democracy is simply the demonstration of crazy attitudes, by the elected/rigged minority........

Skepticus:




The judiciary won't accent to it, no doubt.

Nigeria is a cursed corrupt hell hole.

The effort of SERAP and BudgIT is commended.

You are right! Especially those Igbo lawmakers among them. They only care about their own nuclear family, leaving those who voted them in abject poverty and erosion ravaged land in Ihiala, Aroshukwu, Isalangwa, Onitsha, aba, auchi, Rumubiakani, Rumuoha, Calabar, Obudu, Otuoke, Benin (I hear say witches pretty for there) Okija, and so on...



Infact, without Igbos, Nigeria would have grown tremendously!



Igbo amaka

Its over.

sooperrescue:
Has anyone pondered to the amount of money that these people spent to get there. Did Serap pay for their nomination forms? Did budgit pay for the delegates that made them win the primaries? Did those 1522 folks vote for them freely to make them win? What about the vote buying, the essential commodities that were shared, was it produced by EIE? Instead of making the electoral process to be devoid of cash so that money will not be a big factor in determining who is eligible for the election, they are wasting time antagonising those people who invested in Nigeria's democracy.

No electoral process is devoid of cash - where it comes from is the problem. Politicians should learn to use fund raisers to fund campaigns rather than bank loans or sale of property or god fathers money.

Is nigerias democracy a buiness venture..the money should be cut by half in the first instance. You can't have a country with high unemployment and negative economic indices and be paying politicians humongous salaries.

Tobbydhayor90:
1,522 Nigerians, SERAP, BudgIT, EiE want court to stop NASS N4.68bn ‘welcome package’

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More than 1,500 concerned Nigerians, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), BudgIT and Enough is Enough Nigeria (EiE) have filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court to “restrain, prevent and stop the National Assembly Service Commission from paying the incoming members of the 9th National Assembly individually and/or collectively over N4.68 billion as ‘welcome package’.”

SERAP, BudgIT and EiE, suing for themselves and on behalf of 1,522 concerned Nigerians, stated that: “The Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) has failed to do any downward review of salaries and allowances of members of the National Assembly since 2007 in spite of the economic downturn in Nigeria. Yet, the commission is statutorily required to review the pay of the lawmakers, in conformity with the country’s economic realities and to achieve fiscal efficiency.”

In the suit number FHC/L/CS/943/2019 filed last Friday before the Federal High Court in Lagos, the plaintiffs argued: “Given many years of extreme poverty in the country, and the inability of several state governments to pay salaries of workers and pensions, the refusal or failure of the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission to review and cut the salaries and allowances of members of the National Assembly is a gross violation of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution (as amended) and the commission’s own Act.”

Joined as defendants in the suit are the Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, National Assembly Service Commission and Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC).

The plaintiffs also argued that: “The duty of the RMAFC to review the salaries and allowances of members of the National Assembly is mandatory and the Commission cannot choose not to comply. Therefore, the failure or refusal by the Commission to comply with its own Act amounts to arbitrariness.”

The suit read in part: “Unless the reliefs sought by the plaintiffs are granted, the defendants and members of the National Assembly will continue to benefit from these outrageous salaries and allowances, in breach of the law and at the expense of millions of Nigerians living in extreme poverty.”

“The amounts budgeted as payment for furniture and accommodation allowance to members of the 9th National Assembly negates the oath of office under the Seventh Schedule of the 1999 Constitution by members to perform their functions in the interest of the well-being and prosperity of Nigeria.”

“The National Assembly comprises of 469 members – with 109 in the Senate and 360 in the House of Representatives. These public officers form a very tiny percentage of about 200 million Nigerians. Members are still eligible to collect huge sums of money as monthly allowances and severance pay at the end of their respective terms.”

“The RMAFC is required to advise the Federal, State and Local Governments on fiscal efficiency and methods by which their revenue is to be increased. Prescribing N9,926,062.5 and N10,132,000:00 to members of the House of Representatives and Senate respectively, as furniture and accommodation allowance, is not in tandem with the Commission’s statutory mandate and advisory roles on fiscal efficiency.”

“The action of members of the National Assembly in ‘rubber-stamping’ the passage of the Certain Political, Public and Judicial Office Holders [Salaries and Allowances] [Amendments] Act 2008 is also in clear breach of the Code of Conduct for Public Officers, particularly paragraph 1 of the Code of Conduct for Public Officers which provides that ‘a public officer shall not put himself in a position where his personal interest conflicts with his duties and responsibilities’.”

“It can be inferred that in passing the Certain Political, Public and Judicial Office Holders [Salaries and Allowances] [Amendments] Act 2008, members of the National Assembly more or less appropriated these payments as allowance to themselves, thereby bringing about conflict of their personal interests with national interest of fiscal efficiency, a conflict eventually resolved in favour of personal interest.”


“Section 70 of the Nigerian Constitution provides that a member of the Senate or the House of Representatives shall receive such salary and other allowances as the RMAFC may determine.”

“The initial statute regulating the pay and allowances of members of the National Assembly was the Certain Political, Public and Judicial Office Holders [Salaries and Allowances] Act 2002, which was amended in 2007. The Certain Political, Public and Judicial Office Holders [Amendments] Act 2008 prescribed the current pay and allowances of members of the National Assembly.”

The plaintiffs therefore are seeking the following reliefs from the court:

1. A DECLARATION that the sum of N10,132,000:00 and N9,926,062.5 allotted to each Senator and Member of the House of Representatives respectively as furniture and accommodation allowance is in breach of the Code of Conduct for Public Officers [Fifth Schedule Part 1] of the Constitution of Nigeria 1999, oath of office [Seventh Schedule] of the Constitution of Nigeria 1999 and Section 6[1] of the RMAFC Act 2004.

2. A DECLARATION that the prescription of the sum of N10,132,000:00 and N9,926,062.5 for each Senator and Member of the House of Representatives respectively as furniture and accommodation allowance by the Revenue Allocation Mobilization and Fiscal Commission is in breach of Section 70 of the Constitution of Nigeria 1999 and Section 6[1][b][c][d] of the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission Act 2004.

3. AN ORDER compelling the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission to review and reduce the amount prescribed for each Senator and Member of the House of Representatives respectively as furniture and accommodation allowance in accordance with Section 6[1] of the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission Act 2004.

4. AN ORDER restraining, preventing and stopping the National Assembly Service Commission from paying the sum of N10,132,000:00 and N9,926,062.5 to each Senator and Member of the House of Representatives respectively as furniture and accommodation allowance until the downward review of the pay and allowances of the members of the 1st and 2nd Defendants by the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission

5. AN ORDER restraining, preventing and stopping all members of the Senate and the House of Representatives from collecting or demanding the sum of N10,132,000:00 and N9,926,062.5 as furniture and accommodation allowance due to each Senator and Member of the House of Representatives respectively until the downward review of the pay and allowances of the members of the 1st and 2nd Defendants by the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission.

6. ANY ORDER(S) that the Court may deem fit to make in the circumstance of this suit.

No date has been fixed for the hearing of the suit.

http://serap-nigeria.org/1522-nigerians-serap-budgit-eie-want-court-to-stop-nass-n4-68bn-welcome-package.ngo/

So long as they have access to Niger delta crude oil money they have no human conscience.

Many of these politicians go to the national assembly simply for personal enrichment and not to make laws for the country that will lead to rapid development and prosperity of the Nigeria state.

They want to have all the human and financial comfort to themselves.

The legal opposition put by SERAP, budgit, enough is enough (EIE) and others is a welcome developmentrt

The cost of governance in Nigeria is very high.

Nigeria should adopt the parliamentary system of government and also run the national assembly on part time.

sooperrescue:
Has anyone pondered to the amount of money that these people spent to get there. Did Serap pay for their nomination forms? Did budgit pay for the delegates that made them win the primaries? Did those 1522 folks vote for them freely to make them win? What about the vote buying, the essential commodities that were shared, was it produced by EIE? Instead of making the electoral process to be devoid of cash so that money will not be a big factor in determining who is eligible for the election, they are wasting time antagonising those people who invested in Nigeria's democracy.

Just look at the nonsense you wrote, so because they spent money getting there means they should loot that amount of money.
Other candidates in countries like America and Asia don’t spend money during campaigns abi?
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