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Senators To Earn N506,600 Each Per Annum As Wardrobe Allowance- Saraki

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The Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has cleared the air on the ward-robe allowance for the members of the National Assembly, saying each senator is entitled to N506,600 annually and not N8.64 billion as reported in the media.

“Chairman of Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission was in my office to clarify wardrobe allowance,” Mr. Saraki wrote on twitter Wednesday. “Amount is N506,600 per Senator.”

Mr. Saraki, in response to the media reports that the N460 senators and members of the House of Representatives would receive a whopping N8.64 billion, quoted his interview with BBC in his tweeter handle that “a body responsible for setting up the salaries and allowances was looking into the matter and would publish details of the remuneration on its website.”

Stating that the legislature would be accountable to the people, the senate president said it was not true that each senator would be paid N8.64billion as reported by two Nigerian newspapers.

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NASS Wardrobe Allowance Is 5m Not N8.64bn- RMAFC Boss

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President of the Senate, Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki has cleared air on the N8.64billion bogus wardrobe allowance to lawmakers as reported in the media, saying the Commission is charged with fixing of remunerations to public office holders and advise the media to be more accurate in their reporting.

Senator Saraki said this when he received the Chairman of Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission, Engr. Elias Mbam and his team in Abuja that non compliance by agencies of government has brought major setback in the processes of governance.

Earlier, the RMAFC Boss, Mbam said the agency have always enjoyed cordial relationship with the National Assembly while calling for continued working partnership with the view to enhance their effectiveness.

Mbam condemned the recent media report that exaggerated the wardrobe allowances of Senators and members of the House of Representatives saying, that wardrobe allowance is 25 percent of the basic salary which when broken down amounts to N506, 600 per legislator, per annum.
He advised that the agency operates a functional website where information concerning the day-to-day activities of the agency is published.

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Senator Dino Melaye Reacts To NASS Wardrobe Allowance

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The Senator representing Kogi West in the upper legislative chamber, Dino Melaye, has said the N8.64 billion wardrobe allowance earmarked for legislators in the 8th assembly is not in tune with the current mood of the nation and should be reviewed or jettisoned.

State Governors have been unable to pay salaries and the Nigerian state screams austerity wherever you turn no thanks to a drop in the international price of oil–the country’s major revenue earner.

Melaye was speaking on an Africa Independent Television (AIT) program monitored in Lagos. He’s been anadvocate for a pay cut for lawmakers and reiterated that position on Tuesday.

“I stand solidly on what I earlier said about pay cut. There must be a pay cut to Senators and House of Representative members. You can’t be talking about change and this kind of money in this country now when people are hungry. We must be sacrificial. We must show Nigerians that we must sacrifice by allowing a pay cut.”

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