Nigerians populace have decried the different allowances in the past government of Goodluck Jonathan. One of the corruption charges and nonchalant spending of the past government is the 1billion Naira ($5m)for feeding, which was one of the protests during fuel subsidy in Nigeria, and also one of the reasons Nigerians wanted s change in government in Nigeria.
Reports reaching the public today is that the National Assembly members have been awarded a whooping sum of 9 Billion Naira ($45,260,307 ) as wardrobe allowance. The wardrobe allowance is part of the allowance senators are entitled to get. Some other allowances include furniture, housing and vehicle.
The $9 Billions means, each senator will get a sum of 17.5 million each for each 360 members of the house of representatives and N21.5 million for each of the 109 senators.
The wardrobe allowance, furniture, vehicle and housing allowance are paid once to cover the 4 years tenure of the senators, housing allowances are paid yearly.
The 107 senators of the house of Assembly will get N4,052,800 yearly as housing allowance, and at the end of 4 years, N433,649,600 would have been paid as housing allowance. The senate president and his deputy will be offered accomodation by the federal government.
358 Members of the house of representatives will get N3,970,425 when they assume office. So at the end of 4 years, N1,421,412,150. The speaker and his deputy will be provided accomodation by the federal government.
On furniture, each of the senators will receive N6,079,200 from the budget of the National Assembly, which means at the end of 4 years, the 107 furniture allowance will be N650,474,400, while the Federal government will provide furniture for the Senate president and his deputy.
In the house of representatives, 358 members will take away N5,955,637.50 as furniture allowances, which means at the end of the 4 years, they would have gotten N2,132,118,225. The Federal government will provide furniture for the speaker and his deputy.
Senators will receive N8,105,600 for a vehicle loan, while house of representatives will receive N7,940,850. Collectively the 107 senators would receive 867,299,200, while 358 members of the house of representative will receive N2,842,824,479.
Nigerian is a country where they live less than a dollar everyday with bad infrastructure in the country. The people have voted for All progressive congress to help curb corruption in the country, but the recent $9 Billion has given people the impression that the current government might be the another clique of looters.
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