It is all "legislative rascality and paliamentary gambadoism!"

spearman:

Legislators should be a part time job. They should be seated no more than 90 days a year. The more they meet the bigger the damages done to the Nation. Greeks and Romans were part time lawmakers and so are the American large states like Texas and Michigan with California to follow soon.

We need part-time legislators that will be paid only seating allowances. This system is unsustainable and will inevitably lead the military to come back.

I strongly agree with dis school of thoughts. Our legislasture should be a call to duty and a clarion call so should be on part time basis as it were in the times of those that invented and introduce democracy to d world(Romans,Greeks) and some states in d biggest democracy in d world,USA. This will bring in patrotic,intelligent and dedicated human resources who are genuinely concern about the growth and development of the country rather than go there primarily for d bogus salaries and allowances that is demeaning in d face that a civil servant cant get 18k as minimum wages and millions of nigerians go to bed without food,die in govt hospitals without drugs,die in highways cos of bad roads,get robbed,raped and killed even in broad daylight cos of no adequate funding of security operatives.schools on strike,nigerians living under d bridge and shanties,dieing of water borne dieases,no substainable electricity.i can go on and on. Lets call for a change! It has to start with u and i. Lets start by condemning them and shout to d whole world that what we need is a part time legislature. Say ur part today!

In their anger, I want the National Assembly to serve the nation for free in order to prove him wrong . That is what "honorable" men/women do

Whether he got the percentage right or not,at least we've all known all along that a monstrous chunk of our budget is being shared and eaten in the senate and house of reps,now that Sanusi has jolted them and woken us all from our slumber to examine the criminal appropriations by those greedy leeches in the national assembly,the whole nation;civil society groups,labour,military and paramilitary should rise up and challlenge them till they reduce their greedy criminal pays.That reminds me,I wonder why that busy body pastor Tunde Bakare has not said anything about this topic

Nigerians,arise and stop these criminals

SANUSI and AGANGA have the full support of the masses; most of those lawmakers especially BANKOLE are criminals. Look at the N6bn they approved for sim registration after work done.

I say the masses should revolt against these useless criminals;useless to the nation and only useful to their bellies

in all baba bankole explanation, he has failed to state their monthly and quarterly take home.

donor:

in all baba bankole explanation, he has failed to state their monthly and quarterly take home.

Bros, the truth b say they no get budget. They just dey appropriate money to themselves like God knows!
I believe Sanusi, his office is data-driven and he can't just cook up the figures. These legislooters are sucking Nigeria dry by doing almost nothing

As much as I detest the man of the National Assembly for adding little or no value to the country and yet siphoning so much to their individual pockets, am really worried about SLS. His penchant for unguided statements is worrisome.
SLS almost ruined Nigeria's aviation indistry by going to the Bankers' forum and declaring that all Nigerian airlines are insolvent. He almost ruined our financial industry by declaring that banks and the NSE are like casinos. More worrying is the fact that he comes back to aplogise and explain these statements. Why make them in the first place?
SLS should be seriously warned. He shouldn't make statements he would come back to renounce. How can the NA take 25% of our national budget? it is just not fiscally possible.

Xavier abeg go and sit down jare, Sanusi is telling us how people are plundering the economy and you are calling it loose talk, what should he do, connive with the lawmakers to plunder us some more, please listen to the radios and hear how Nigerians are now questioning the bogus amounts these people are chopping, the man dies in him who in the face of tyranny keeps silent.

Xavier.:

As much as I detest the man of the National Assembly for adding little or no value to the country and yet siphoning so much to their individual pockets, am really worried about SLS. His penchant for unguided statements is worrisome.
SLS almost ruined Nigeria's aviation indistry by going to the Bankers' forum and declaring that all Nigerian airlines are insolvent. He almost ruined our financial industry by declaring that banks and the NSE are like casinos. More worrying is the fact that he comes back to aplogise and explain these statements. Why make them in the first place?
SLS should be seriously warned. He shouldn't make statements he would come back to renounce. How can the NA take 25% of our national budget? it is just not fiscally possible.

Almost ruined our financial industry? Whose side are you on Mr. man.? Bogus claims all round.

I am glad people are begining to get insenced about the true state of the country. maybe that will get us all thinking in the right direction.

Is what Lamido saying right? it sure is.
Who should be held responsible? the legislator from your part of the country. He represents you at the national assembly and he owes you and explanation.

our politics need to be active. We need to challenege the people who say they represent us

My friend, am already on my sit jare.

Economics should be based on facts and not sentiments and emotions.

As much as we all hate these men of the NA and their profligacy, we should encourage baseless statements from those that should know better.

You don't cure an evil without another evil. He that seek equity must do so with clean hands.

Xavier.:

My friend, am already on my sit jare.

Economics should be based on facts and not sentiments and emotions.

As much as we all hate these men of the NA and their profligacy, we should encourage baseless statements from those that should know better.

You don't cure an evil without another evil. He that seek equity must do so with clean hands.

Did Sanusi not present facts? Admit it your post earlier was completely bogus.

These click with a resolute arrangement to keep sharing our money among themselves while the poor masses
are left in stark darkness must be stopped. Its time for Nigerians to rise up and protest over the huge (loots) so called salaries of the members of our National assemblies

That money na just basic pay oh. We haven't talked about the money they appropriate to themselves for stuff like SNC or the bribes they take to pass laws.

Xavier maybe you should stand up then, so that you can see far. Sanusi has always backed up his claims with facts, we Nigerians need people who will tell us things as they are. I will rather be told the gloomy news than finding out later when it is too late. Our bankers were cowboys doing what they liked, Sanusi not only exposed them, he also addressed the issues by bailing them out ( I wish he had not, see oil marketers asking for bailout as well). Legislators spending money in a reckless manner need to be exposed. Let me do a small arithmetic for you, what Mark earns in a year is enough to pay 55,000 workers minimum wage in a year or he can empower 55,000 people (216K per person), in 4 years his salary and allowances are enough to empower 220,000 people to start some small business, imagine if he spends that money on his constituency, will their life not be better? We need these people ridiculed.

Sanusi has been summoned to defend himself tomorrow.

Let us tarry till tomorrow to hear his own side of the story and the clarifications which he will surely make.

Xavier.:

My friend, am already on my sit jare.

Economics should be based on facts and not sentiments and emotions.

As much as we all hate these men of the NA and their profligacy, we should encourage baseless statements from those that should know better.

You don't cure an evil without another evil. He that seek equity must do so with clean hands.

As an economist u shd no d difference between total budget and recurrent expenditure which SLS is talking about.and if u run ur statistics very well u will agree with us dat a paltry 450 people are having more than a fair share of our national cake while a other 150million nigerians wallow in abject poverty

doesn't matter

Unless Sanusi has a different explanation to make, the total overhead budgeted in 2010 appropriation is N2.1 trillion and the total budget of the National Assembly (both capital and overhead) in 2010 is N158 billion.

N158 billion(though both capital and recurrent of NASS) is still 7.4% of the the total FG overhead.

I do not support the NASS one bit but I think someone needs either provide a plausible explanation of the 25% or enroll for an administrative management for mouth diarrhea

calyx:

Unless Sanusi has a different explanation to make, the total overhead budgeted in 2010 appropriation is N2.1 trillion and the total budget of the National Assembly (both capital and overhead) in 2010 is N158 billion.

N158 billion(though both capital and recurrent of NASS) is still 7.4% of the the total FG overhead.

I do not support the NASS one bit but I think someone needs either provide a plausible explanation of the 25% or enroll for an administrative management for mouth diarrhea

Is really possible that Sanusi could deliberately be inciting public opinion, as claimed by the law makers, against the latter?

why would someone in his position deliberately distort figures, esp one that is easily verifiable?

These lawmakers should be ashamed of themselves. They have done very little, in terms of contribution to making Nigeria better. How many bills have they passed? how many are still pending? They only have mouth to address small issues such as this. When Yar'adua was hospitalized in Saudi, it took them almost forever to do what they should and put an acting -president in place. So many things have not been addressed. What they earn yearly is JUST TOOOO MUCH. N158BILLION per year, They are there to serve not to milk our federation account.

Just imagine if all political office holders were earning the same as our doctors or university professors , how many of them would run for political office?

Mai Suya:

Is really possible that Sanusi could deliberately be inciting public opinion, as claimed by the law makers, against the latter?

why would someone in his position deliberately distort figures, esp one that is easily verifiable?

He may have been too excited and called 25%, 2.5%. He may have based his calculations on something else. He may have compared the figure to some other figure in the budget to arrive at his conclusion. But he wasnt far from the implied truth, dem NASS peeps are milking us dry. they do little to address issues that affect the common man. i wish we could squeeze their necks and get them to reduce these figure allocated to them by at least 75%. N39.5 billion should be more like it, rather than N158 bil.

calyx:

Unless Sanusi has a different explanation to make, the total overhead budgeted in 2010 appropriation is N2.1 trillion and the total budget of the National Assembly (both capital and overhead) in 2010 is N158 billion.

N158 billion(though both capital and recurrent of NASS) is still 7.4% of the the total FG overhead.

I do not support the NASS one bit but I think someone needs either provide a plausible explanation of the 25% or enroll for an administrative management for mouth diarrhea

Let us give ur 7.4% some benefit of doubt. Is it still not too much for 360 + 190 + few tens of staff of NASS? Let us assume that the total NASS plus staff are 1000 in number. Now this means that out of 150 million people, 1000 which is 0.0006666666666666666% of our population are taking 7.4%.

Is it fair?

It is all "legislative rascality and paliamentary gambadoism!

gbam

I watched with utter dismay, surprise, disappointment and disgust the way and manner the MPS handled the alleged statement credited to the CBN Governor on the account of 25% overhead expenditure cost incurred by the National Assembly in the national budget. How else can one describe self-serving and self-aggrandized set of these endangered species? It is a known fact without appeal to pity/sentiments that they are one of the most paid and expensive legislators you can find anywhere in this planet.
Let us assume that Mallam Sanusi’s comment was sentimental or perhaps he was wrong in his analysis or at least the over-zealots of journalism went out of tune of his message, it will be out of tune to say or insinuate that the comment has brought upon them stigmatization and security concerns upon them and their families. This indeed is what I can call recklessness and show of shame. This is the same set of people that want to make themselves automatic members of NEC of their respective political parties. Infact, I was really surprised to watch Senator Mamora condemning the statement despite coming from the Progressives’ bloc. I was really disappointed to watch Honourable Dabiri canvassing against the statement. Perhaps they saw the truth but never wanted to admit on the floor of the House or else they will be heavily crucified by their thieving mates. These rogues are also seeking inclusion of ‘The Right of First Refusal’ into the Electoral Act; an attempt to make themselves life-serving legislators. Haba! This is enough laughter.
They want to exert the power that is not really vested in their domains, mind you, they have jacked up many times their remunerations without any recourse to laid-down procedures.
So, if Sanusi had raised an alarm that they are getting 25% is neither an understatement nor overstatement but an attestation to the state of our collective economic well-being. What these guys are earning are extremely dangerous and economically killing and has serious impacts on democratization. No wonder some analysts have said Nigerian democracy is more expensive than any other democracies in the world.
Since they have the statutory power to summon CBN Governor and others to explain his story but the message has already been passed and it is left for their conscience to dispel the truth or accept it.

sanusi said the truth, and nothing from the truth

If Sanusi is lying National Assembly should clear our doubts by making their expenses public so that Nigerians can judge right.