Sen. Ajibola Bashiru (APC-Osun Central) has disclosed that senators in Nigeria earn less than N1million per month.<\/p>\n
Bashiru made the disclosure on Thursday while speaking on the sideline of a programme organised by the Correspondents Chapel of the Kwara Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).<\/p>\n
He stated that basically, what a senator take-home monthly is N700,000 out of which car loan of over N8 million is being deducted on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I tell whoever that stands up to say senator collects jumbo pay is that they can also contest so that you can also collect jumbo pay\u201d NAN quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe truth of it is that the take-home pay of a senator is about N700,000 per month. Aside from it is the car loan of over N8 million which is being deducted monthly.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a senator, you are entitled to six aides who are paid by the National Assembly Service Commission and they are paid directly into the account. Will you count that as my salary?<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso, I am entitled to travel allowance and Eastacode which does not form part of the salary\u201d, Bashiru said.<\/p>\n
On cost of governance, the lawmaker said: \u201cWe have about 38 structure systems in the country \u2013 the Federal Government, Federal Capital Territory and the 36 states of the federation with bureaucracies.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe personnel cost of MDAs in Nigeria runs into billions if not trillion of naira. Let\u2019s analyse Nigerian budget and see what goes into personnel.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are not focusing on this, but not focusing on salaries of 109 senators and 360 representatives\u201d.<\/p>\n
The lawmaker added that if the National Assembly is scrapped, the country would only make marginal savings, if at all any savings, in the cost of governance.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe issue of cost of governance goes beyond going out and attack legislators as if they are rogues.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe must look inward to see how we can streamline our agencies, ministries and departments in such a way that is efficient and has value for money\u201d, Bashiru said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sen. Ajibola Bashiru (APC-Osun Central) has disclosed that senators in Nigeria earn less than N1million per month. Bashiru made the disclosure on Thursday while speaking on the sideline of a programme organised by the Correspondents Chapel of the Kwara Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). He stated that basically, what a senator take-home monthly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":10873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[34,173],"class_list":["post-21983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-apc","tag-parties"],"yoast_head":"\n