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President Muhammadu Buhari's Special Adviser on Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, says statements made by President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmed Lawan, dispelling the existence of 'jumbo pay' for senators and claiming his salary is N750,000, belong in the dumpster.
The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, PACAC, stated that Lawan is feeding the public half-truth as his monthly take home pay amounts to N15 million.
Scooper reports how the Yobe-born Senate leader Tuesday, debunked public notions about jumbo salary taken home by senators monthly and claimed a Nigerian senator's take home totals N750, 000.
Lawan also vowed to synergise with the executives in order to work out better funding support for the 9th assembly.
But speaking on Wednesday, Sagay noted that Nigerians were more interested in how much senators take home monthly in both salaries and allowances.
He pointed out that it was public knowledge that the bulk of the money earned by senators come from their allowances.
The Punch reported him as saying: “He (Lawan) knows that nobody will take him seriously. I respect and like him, but what he has done is to give half-truth. He is telling us the actual salary without mentioning anything about the allowances.
“That’s where the jumbo pay comes in when you talk of building, furniture, domestic this or that, 15 items and those items alone bring everything up to N13.5m a month. So, simply mentioning the base salary, which brings it over N14m, is not sufficient.
“So, technically, he’s right, that’s their salary. But what is his income, take-home pay, at the end of the month? It’s about N15m and we are not including so many other things we need not talk about now.”
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