The Senate has formally confirmed that its members receive N13.5 million monthly as running cost.<\/p>\n
Recall that NIGERIANEWS.ca recently reported how a Kaduna senator, Shehu Sani, confirmed the amount publicly.<\/p>\n
The money is illegal as it is not approved by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC). It is also separate from the salaries and allowances approved by RMAFC which, Mr. Sani says, totals about N750,000 monthly.<\/p>\n
Senate spokesman, Aliyu Abdullahi, said the revelation by Mr. Sani that senators receive N13.5 million monthly as\u00a0\u201crunning cost\u201d\u00a0is nothing new.<\/p>\n
Mr. Abdullahi in a statement\u00a0on Sunday\u00a0noted that details of what Mr. Sani said were already\u00a0\u201ccontained in various line items and expenditure heads of the budget of the National Assembly which has been made public.\u201d<\/p>\n
The National Assembly in 2017, for the first time, released his budget after public pressure. That budget however had no subhead for office running cost putting doubt to Mr. Abdullahi\u2019s claim.<\/p>\n
The Senate spokesperson, however, said that\u00a0\u201cif people had looked critically at the budget of the National Assembly which has since been made public, they would have seen that various line items like traveling, medicals, consultancy and the rest were captured in the budget and they were the funds divided for each Senator\u2019s use.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAlmost all holders of elective and appointive offices have running costs allocated to their offices and that cannot be said to be part of their salaries,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Senate has formally confirmed that its members receive N13.5 million monthly as running cost. Recall that NIGERIANEWS.ca recently reported how a Kaduna senator, Shehu Sani, confirmed the amount publicly. The money is illegal as it is not approved by the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC). It is also separate from the salaries […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[317],"yoast_head":"\n