Politics Breakdown of Salaries And Allowances of Nigerian Senators, Reps

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At a time Nigerians are groaning under the yoke of recession, members of the National Assembly (NASS) comprising the Senators and Members of House of Representatives have received a total sum of N6.78 billion as their official salaries and allowances in one year, investigation by Economic Confidential has revealed.

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The report obtained by Economic intelligence magazine showed the ‘legitimate’ remuneration of the federal legislators in compliance to the statutory approval of the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC).

The remuneration packages include: annual salaries, accommodation, vehicle maintenance and fuel, Personal Assistants, House maintenance, domestic staff, entertainment and utilities allowances. Others allowances are; Constituency allowance, Annual Leave, Hardship allowance, wardrobe, newspapers and responsibility allowances.

A careful scrutiny of the report shows that:

Annual Salary of a Senator - N2.02m
Annual Salary of a Member, House of Reps - N1.98m

Basic Salaries of:
  • Senate President - N2.48m
  • Speaker of House of Rep - N2.47m
The Deputy Senate President has N2.30m as annual basic salary while his counterpart, Deputy Speaker earns N2.28m annually.

Allowances:
In addition to the annual basic salary, each member of the National Assembly receives:
  • 200 percent of the annual salary for accommodation
  • 75 percent for vehicle maintenance,
  • 25 percent for Personal Assistants
  • 5 percent for house maintenance
  • 75 percent for domestic staff
  • 30 percent for both entertainment and utilities
  • 25 percent for wardrobe
  • 15 percent for newspapers and responsibility allowance of between 10, 7, and 5 percent respectively as the case may be on the position of the legislator.
  • While each senator receives a whopping 250 percent for constituency allowance, member of House of Representative gets 100% for the same annually.

The senate numbering 109 senators gulped the sum of N1.85billion in the last one year, while the 360 members of the House of Representatives got N4.93 billion.

According to estimates from the report, there are Non-Regular allowances federal legislators are entitled to. They include: Furniture and Severance gratuity which are due only once in four years.

Other non-regular allowances include:
  • Estacode allowances which is paid in US Dollars for foreign trips
  • Duty Tour allowance which is paid in Naira for local trips within Nigeria.

Further analysis by the Economic Confidential reveals that an average Nigerian worker with a minimum wage of N18,000 a month will have to work for four years before earning the utility allowance for one legislator.




Additional analysis by Daily Post
 
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