Undoubtedly Channels television have to go extreme miles in other to get out the earnings of Legislators together.
Looking carefully at the report, it shows that each Senator has a monthly salary of N29,479,749. The breakdown include packages as follows : Basic salary of over 2million naira, Hardship allowance, Constituency allowance, Furniture, Newspaper, Accomodation, Personal Assistants, House maintenance, entertainment and utilities allowances. Others allowances are; Annual Leave allowance, wardrobe, Recess, Vehicle main allowance, Severance Gratuity and motor vehicle allowances.
We all can clearly see that the loathing of this country Nigeria starts from those at the top, they all keep on talking about the salary of an average Nigerians forgetting that the senators, legislators and your governors too are also on salary but we don’t care to talk about it because we don’t know the figures and they will never go into details to reveal their salary.
How can one man be earning almost 2.5 million Naira as basic salary alongside these incentives and yet nothing absolutely nothing to show for it and the common is receiving just 30,000 minimum wage meanwhile these senators has the power to make laws, as summarized in chapter one, section four of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria but over the last few years you all will quite agree with me that the laws they have been passing does not Favour the common man but themselves.
Hardship allowance as stated in the image is 50% of their basic salary, I’m yet to understand what this allowance is meant for, how can someone be receiving allowance for hardship? The same hardship that we the common man are facing back to back yet we surviving it without allowance.
Furniture allowance is 300% of their basic salary, what exactly are they really doing with this allowance?
In case you still don’t understand 300% of 2.4 million is 7.2 million now, what furniture will cost those amount? And we are all glamouring for a better Nigerian why don’t they patronize MADE IN NIGERIA furnitures in order to save cost after all the best wood can be found in Nigeria.
Newspaper allowance is 1.2 million, really? Is there even a need for this at all when we are in digital age now, you can get news at your fingertips through your phones and even from your television.
There are so many things that doesn’t make sense and yet they are receiving money for it, it is high times Nigerians wake up to challenge these so called “Senators” so that themselves as a senator can make the law to cut down their own allowance and salaries and then channel it towards other sectors that are lagging behind.
The constituency contract speculated 250 million for members of House Of Representatives and then Double or triple for the Senator and yet we have members representing us in our areas and other area’s in Nigerian yet we have nothing to show for it as the constituency roads are bad, no health care or even the least water in major areas. The mother of all the evil why people are killing themselves by every means to become the governor is because of the SECURITY VOTE, some state gets about 1 billion upwards while some get 800 million which does not make any sense because it is not well utilize, if it were utilized properly our Police and Military personnel won’t be this corrupt. On my own I think this security vote should be scraped with immediate effect and I will take them to court and even the federal representative over these allowance they are getting when the average Nigerians can not make $25 a month because our money is so poor and devaluated
That is, the senate arm alone consisting of 109 senators gulp the sum of 3,213, 292,641 monthly. It is worthy to note that, this doesn't include what members of House of Representatives receive monthly.
The senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, revealed that he and his colleagues receive N13.5 million monthly as “running cost.”
March 7, 2018 Premium Times News reported an interview with Mr. Sani said that the running cost does not include a N700,000 monthly consolidated salary and allowances which they also receive.
“I think what we can say is that the running cost of a senator is N13.5 million every month,” the senator said.
BBC News also reported on April 1, 2018
"Many Nigerians were shocked after recent revelations from a prominent politician, Shehu Sani, that Nigerian senators are entitled to monthly expenses of 13.5m naira (£27,000; $37,500), in addition to their monthly salaries of more than $2,000.
A Senate spokesperson confirmed the figure, but said the funds were for senators to run their offices and should not be counted as part of their salaries."
Whereas, American Senators accordingly Wikipedia recieve $174,000 per annum each since 2009 till date, breaking it to monthly salary is $14.500 which Nigerian Senators recieve double of what American Senators recieve without doing any good for their people, many Nigerian Senators can not point out what they have done for their constituency for 4 years in the elected office, therefore it means they were paid to corrupt.
Reacting to this, The Founder and President of One Love Foundation and the Father of Nigerian Students-FONS; Eholor condemn this act, he said in his statement that "all forms of corruptions should be digged out and more funds should be channelled into establishment of infrastructures like road, good health system, good school, proper drainage system etc, Nigeria will be a better country."