N13.5 MILLION NAIRA PAID TO SENATORS AS MONTHLY ALLOWANCE

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The Senate yesterday confirmed that each senator collects N13.5m monthly as running cost in addition to N750,000 monthly salary/allowances.


Senate Spokesman, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, said the figure Sani gave out about running cost of the offices of Senators was contained in various line items and expenditure heads of the budget of the National Assembly which has been made public.





Sani representing Kaduna Central in an interview with a news magazine disclosed the figure to be N700,000 salary of senators and N13.5 Million naira as running cost.
“Almost all holders of elective and appointive offices have running costs allocated to their offices and that cannot be said to be part of their salaries, there is no specific instruction on what the fund should be used for, lawmakers must provide receipts to back up their expenses from the running costs.”, Abdullahi stated.





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