Remunerations: Ezekwesili challenges NASS to public debate..... The Minister further submitted: “As part of the aspect of my presentation that touched on management of Public Finance, I provided eight years data on budgetary allocations or transfers to the National Assembly. The data in question is publicly available information from the Ministry of Finance which reveals that the allocations to the National Assembly known as Statutory Transfers between 2005 and 2013 were approximately One Trillion Naira as follows: 2005, N54.79 billion; 2006, N54.79 billion; 2007, N66.4 billion; 2008, N114.39 billion; 2009, N158.92 billion; 2010, N150 billion; 2011, N150 billion; 2012, N150 billion; 2013, N150 billion “I also provided information available in a recent global comparison of legislators’ remuneration across the world recently publishedby the United Kingdom based The Economistmagazine. I stated that the report alleged that Nigerian federal legislators with a basic salary of $189,500 per annum (N30.6m) were the highest paid lawmakers in the world.” She insisted that an institution like the National Assembly needed to encourage and appreciate dissenting views and promote debate
Posted on: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 19:44:16 +0000
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