Economic Crisis: Senators' And Representatives' Pay Is Insufficient To Perform Their Jobs [WATCH]

Honorable Benjamin Kalu, Deputy Speaker of House of Reps

The current salary of Nigerian lawmakers, according to Benjamin Kalu, the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, is far less than what it should be.

Members of the National Assembly receive salaries that are significantly less than what is expected of them. They are unable to fulfill their duties in their various constituencies at home with the amount they are receiving, according to Honorable Benjamin Kalu, HOR, Deputy Speaker.

Speaking on Channels TV's Politics Today on Monday, Kalu made this assertion and clarified that allowances, which are, in his opinion, intended for the implementation of constituency projects, are not the same as lawmakers' salaries.

He said, “At the moment talking about the salary of the National Assembly is not as much as people think, salary is different from allowance, which is meant to do the jobs that the constituents have sent us to do. Nobody is allowed to touch allowances, it is your salary that belongs to you. Allowances have subheadings for which they are meant for. if you use it wrongly when you're retiring you'll be sanctioned for that. Talking about the salary of the National Assembly it is a far cry from what it is supposed to be.”

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His comments come in the wake of growing demands to lower government spending. According to a story published by Naija News on Monday, the government led by President Bola Tinubu adopted a white paper from the 2011 Stephen Oronsaye report that suggested eliminating some federal agencies and merging others in order to reduce costs associated with governance.

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