{"id":127826,"date":"2024-08-14T12:09:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T11:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nigerian-senators-get-n21m-monthly-sumaila"},"modified":"2024-08-14T13:13:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T12:13:31","slug":"nigerian-senators-get-n21m-monthly-sumaila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/nigerian-senators-get-n21m-monthly-sumaila","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Senators get N21m monthly \u2013 Sumaila"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Kano South Senator, Abdurrahman Kawu Sumaila, has said senators get N21 million monthly as running cost.<\/p>\n<p>Sumaila, however, disclosed that he earns one million as monthly salary.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke in an interview with BBC Hausa Service on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to the lawmaker: \u201cMy monthly salary is less than N1million. After deductions, the figure comes down to a little over N600,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the increase effected, in the Senate, each Senator gets N21million every month as running cost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This comes as former President Olusegun Obasanjo accused members of the National Assembly of contravening the law by fixing bogus salaries and allowances for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, had revealed that each member of the Senate collects a total monthly salary and allowances of N1,063,860.00<\/p>\n<p>The Commission gave the breakdown of the cumulative take-home pay for lawmakers to include: basic salary of N168,866:70; motor vehicle fuelling and maintenance allowance of N126,650; N42,216:66 for personal assistant; domestic staff \u2013 N126,650:00; entertainment \u2013 N50,660:00; utilities \u2013 N50,660; newspapers\/periodicals \u2013 N25,330:00; wardrobe allowance \u2013 N42,216,66:00; house maintenance \u2013 N8,443.33 and constituency allowance \u2013 N422,166:66; respectively.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Kano South Senator, Abdurrahman Kawu Sumaila, has said senators get N21 million monthly as running cost. Sumaila, however, disclosed that he earns one million as monthly salary. He spoke in an interview with BBC Hausa Service on Wednesday morning. According to the lawmaker: \u201cMy monthly salary is less than N1million. 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