August 14, (THEWILL) – The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) lawmaker representing Kano South senatorial district in the National Assembly, Abdurrahman Kawu Sumaila, says each Senator gets N21 million naira monthly as running cost.
This is coming a day after the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) – a body responsible for fixing salaries and allowances of public servants on Tuesday, revealed that each member of the Senate collects a total monthly salary and allowances of N1,063,860.00.
The Commission gave the breakdown of the cumulative take-home pay for lawmakers to include: basic salary of N168,866:70; motor vehicle fuelling and maintenance allowance of N126,650; N42,216:66 for personal assistant; domestic staff – N126,650:00; entertainment – N50,660:00; utilities – N50,660; newspapers/periodicals – N25,330:00; Wardrobe allowance – N42,216,66:00; house maintenance – N8,443.33 and constituency allowance – N422,166:66; respectively.
However, speaking to the BBC Hausa Service on Wednesday, Sumaila said the monthly salary was fixed by the RMAFC.
The former aide to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari said the salary of a senator is about N1 million. He noted that after taxes, the total take-home amounts to about N600,000.
“The amount of salary received per month is less than N1 million. If there are cuts, it comes back to about N600,000. In the Senate, each senator is given N21 million every month as the cost of running his office”, he said.
