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Nigerians Must Demand A Review Of Lawmakers Allowances - NBA's Ubani
The Vice-President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. Monday Ubani, has called for a review of lawmakers’ earnings.
This is in reaction
to Senator Shehu Sani’s disclosure of lawmakers’ allowances.
Sani, who represents Kaduna Central Senatorial
District in the National Assembly, had revealed amount he and his colleagues
receive monthly.
He confirmed that each Senator gets N13.5 million as
running cost.
Ubani in a short statement described the lawmakers
allowances as ‘Jumbo allowances’, adding that Nigerians must demand a review of
the earnings.
The statement read, “It means that Nigerians have
not been getting a fair deal from our legislators.
“If a single person will be earning that kind of
money in a country where the minimum wage is N18,000; something has to be done.
We need to insist on a review of these jumbo allowances.”
Also speaking, the Executive Chairman, Centre for
Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, Mr. Debo Adeniran, said Nigerians had a
right to be displeased because they had not been getting a fair deal from the
lawmakers.
Adeniran speaking to Punch said, “The outcry
wouldn’t have been if the legislators have been living up to the expectation of
their constituents.
“Nigerians don’t see the lawmakers as people who are
representing their interest.”
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