Saraki’s aide tackles SERAP, says no plans to increase senators’ allowances

Olu Onemola, the Special Assistant on New Media to the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has stated that there are no plans to increase the allowances of Senators.

Onemola was responding to a tweet by The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) where the organisation had
claimed that the Senate President May be planning to increase the allowances of Senators.

SERAP had said, “Dear @bukolasaraki Your alleged decision to increase monthly allowance per senator to N15m is contrary to the Salaries Act. Nigerians ask you to suspend the allowances until our suit on the matter is determined. There isn’t one law for lawmakers and one for the rest of the people”.

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But responding, Onemola also tweeted, “Dear @SERAPNigeria, there is no such “alleged decision” to increase the allowances of Senators. An organization like yours needs to be more careful, especially when pushing out information meant for public consumption. Thank you.

“To avoid any doubt: there is no plan to amend the allowances of Senators. The tweet by @SERAPNigeria is baseless and untrue. The public should disregard this ENTIRELY.”

 

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