Monthly pay: Senators earn N15.18m each, Reps N10.59m – Investigation By Everest Amaefule and Ifeanyi Onuba Monday, 6 Dec 2010 EACH senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria earns N15.18m in salaries and allowances monthly, just as each member of the House of Representatives takes home N10.59m a month, investigation has revealed. For the Senate, each senator (excluding the Senate President and his deputy) takes home about N198.54m annually (N16.64m per month). This translates into a total of N21.243bn. The amount includes each senator‘s N45m quarterly allowance, which amount to N180m annually for the four quarters of the year, and the official N18.54m that goes into their individual accounts annually as salaries and other emoluments. According to our correspondents‘ findings, every member of the House of Representatives takes home about N127.18m annually (or N10.59m per month). The amount includes N28m quarterly allowance for each member, which translates into N112m annually for the four quarters of the year. It also includes the official N15.18m annual salary and other emoluments of each member, contained in a document obtained from the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission. To keep the federal lawmakers in office for one year, the Federal Government spends a staggering N67.32bn on their salaries and other allowances. There are 469 federal lawmakers, comprising 109 senators and 360 members of the House of Representatives. The figure, however, excludes the lawmakers‘ constituency votes, which are not paid directly to them. The constituency vote when paid,will also be consumed by the same lawmakers,not remembering those they claim to represent. The Nigeria government is a thief,there is no government in the world that is as expensive as ours, no wonder they take lives to be there. To be candid, militants and boko haram are not worse than thiese people. God will help us
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