No senator earns N21million monthly as salary and allowances Says Senate spokesman Adeyemi Adaramodu
No senator earns N21million monthly as salary and allowances, Senate spokesman Adeyemi Adaramodu (APC – Ekiti South) said yesterday.
In a statement Senator Adaramodu said that “running cost” is different from the salary and personal allowances of the lawmakers.
He said salaries of lawmakers is as stipulated by the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) – a body statutorily empowered to do so.
The Chairman of RMAFC, Muhammed Bello, had on Tuesday, said each Senator gets a monthly salary and allowances of N1,063,860:00.
Adaramodu also said that “running cost” is not peculiar to the National Assembly, adding that “such funds are retired by relevant officers after being used for official purposes and proof of genuine expenditure.”
“It’s not a personal allowance or salary of a legislator,” he said.
He also added that the fund is also used to maintain lawmakers’ Constituency offices and staff.
He decried allegations of wasteful spending by the Parliament, adding that “the Nigerian Senate is an Assembly of accomplished and successful professionals, administrators and captains of industries, who are not driven by these often touted egregious pecuniary bits, rather for their patriotic zeal in the nation’s quest to breathe life to Nigeria’s political and socio-economic dry bones.
