SOME senators have expressed mixed reactions over the review of remunerations of lawmakers in
the country. Speaking on the review, Senator Kabir Marafa, who represents Zamfara Central, on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, said
the claim that legislators in the country were receiving high remunerations was untrue.
Marafa, while challenging Nigerians to go and verify from banks how much senators were earning, insisted that some Nigerians mistook constituency allowance, as part of the salaries which the lawmakers earned.
He said: Our monies are paid through banks, they don’t give us directly; so let the bankers come
out and say how much a senator earns. “When you get the correct figure, that is when you and I can sit down and talk but you cannot invent
an amount and then tell me how much I should reduce from it.
“I think there is general ignorance as to how much a Nigerian senator earns. I would want Nigerians to know exactly how much we earn;
then they can come up with criticisms on basis of facts,” he said. When asked how much a Senator
earns he still referred the reporter to find out from the banks.
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