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A Ghanaian minister must have a government bungalow, a 4x4 SUV, a saloon car, drivers, a cook, a gardener, a day watchman, a night watchman, a security guard – all at taxpayers’ expense. Then insist that at the end of their service, the bungalow must be sold to them at firesale price with a loan from the same government. A Nigerian Senator takes home a cool $2 million in salary and emoluments – from furniture to even latrine allowance. Tanzanian MPs, who already make $119,200, voted for themselves a $98,000 end of service gratuity. TZ’s budget is 40 percent aid financed. Kenya’s MPs get an annual salary of $120,000. Add emoluments and allowances and it exceeds $200,000 – Obama’s salary. Kenya’s MPs claim that Nairobi’s roads are so bad that when they travel on them, their bottoms shake small. So they want a “rough road allowance.” Prof. George Ayittey,
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 11:17:49 +0000

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