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Lawmaker representing Kano South, Senator Sumaila Kawu, has revealed that he earns over N21m monthly as a total take-home package. In an interview with the…

Lawmaker representing Kano South, Senator Sumaila Kawu, has revealed that he earns over N21m monthly as a total take-home package.
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In an interview with the BBC Hausa Service, Kawau said the official pay of N1 million fixed by the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) drops to around N600,000 after deductions but there are other allowances that take their total pay to N21 million per month.

He spoke 24 hours after RMAFC, the body empowered by law to fix salaries and allowances of political office-holders, claimed that each of the 109 senators in the upper chamber receives a total of N1.06m in salary and allowances per month.

RMAFC Chairman, Mohammed Shehu, said this as a form of clarification in response to recent controversies over the real amount each lawmaker earns per month.

But in his BBC Hausa interview, Kawu said, “The amount of salary received per month is less than N1 million. If there are cuts, it comes back to about N600,000. In the senate, each senator is given N21 million every month as the cost of running his office.”

The lawmaker said the allowances include office running, newspaper money, local travel and others.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo had stirred up a controversy when he tackled National Assembly members over their allowances.

He spoke in Abeokuta, Ogun State Capita,l while receiving House of Representatives members led by Ikenga UgoChinyere.

“In your case, with all due respect, you’re not supposed to fix your salaries. But you decide what you pay yourself, the allowances that you give yourselves (including) newspaper allowances.

“You give yourselves all sorts of things, and you know it is not right. It is immoral, (yet) you are doing it, the Senate is doing it, and you are beating your chests about it. In some cases, the executive gives you what you’re not entitled to. You all got N200 million (each).”

The lawmakers had responded saying RAMFC fixes their allowances.

The allowances of federal lawmakers had been shrouded in controversy until a former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani, had disclosed that each Senator collects a monthly running cost of N13.5m in addition to the monthly N750,000 prescribed by the commission in the 8th Senate which he was part of from 2015-2019.

https://dailytrust.com/i-get-n21m-monthly-kano-lawmaker-reveals/

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Bunch of rogues.

NASS annual budget is huge

They should swap that with our Defence budget and lets see if insecurity will not become things of the past

When you add constituency allowances, you understand why politicians pay up to 1 million per night to prostitutes to do the same thing they always do with their wives for free.

I thought RMAFC came out yesterday to Say Senators earn only 1M a month.

Nigeria is a terrible crime scene under Thiefnibuu and Akpabio.

National assembly will be the end of this country.

DevilsEqual:
NASS annual budget is huge

They should swap that with our Defence budget and lets see if insecurity will not become things of the past

Defence takes the biggest cut of our budget

Keep on whinny us 😔 😟


Imagine paying yourself

SmartPolician:
When you add constituency allowances, you understand why politicians pay up to 1 million to prostitutes to do the same thing they always do with their wives for free.

Even when you do it with your wife, it is not free.

Nigeria is a country programmed to fail. In a sensible clime those nonentity are not to be paraded as lawmakers

Na wa

The truth choke O

Because I've been wondering why someone in the presidency as a PA will be earning same amount as a senator yet they fight to kill themselves

Chaiiiiiiii

and BAT is telling the gullible Nigerians to get patient with empty Stomach.

This is part of the reasons these criminals in government will do anything to ensure Nigeria remains undivided as a nation, so that they can continue to plunder Nigeria's treasury in the name of being officials. They know that if Nigeria disintegrates, the new emerging countries like Biafra will not give criminals like them the opportunity to emerge leaders and parliament will become a part time job and not a full time job some criminals will be using to milk the nation while doing nothing special to make laws to make the country work for all citizens

I blame Nigerian youths

And some idiots here will be hyping the 20k Tinubu gave students as stipend. Apc mission is to weaken the economy and weaponise poverty so that the masses will be at their mercy.

They should be collecting minimum wage too

Politicians do more harm to Nigerians than boko haram

The real terrorists are occupying the high seats of our country

We need to blow this particular salary issue out of proportion.

We need clarity. So many figures and I can't keep up.

How much una dey collect as salary both basic and allowances. Kindly tell us.

Only a select few are enjoying and looking fat, while the whole %98 of us are "Ebin n pawa.

Hmmm

And the RMAFC came out yesterday lying that Senators earn only 1M a month? What the Bleep is wrong with all the criminals in this nation?

21million per month

In a sane society, RMFAC boss would be asked to step down, but in Naija everyone is Mafia in his own territory.

Something around 💯 billion to service only senators for just 4 years.(this just salary oo)

Why won't country go down economically?

Indeed our democracy need to be reviewed.

N21M every month. How many companies in Nigeria do N21M monthly turn over after tax? My God, this country is finished.

See we have crooks in the NA

This is against the around N1m they are entitled to according to the law

21 milliona Naira for only one lazy Nigerian!

This is just the basic earnings. There are still ways if making millions more by been in lucrative committees.

Nigeria as a nation is nothing but a crime scene.