Senate finally reacts to Shehu Sani’s revelation on earnings

The Nigerian Senate has reacted to the revelation made by Shehu Sani, the senator representing Kaduna Central, that each senator received N13 million monthly as “running cost”and was entitled to N200 million for constituency projects apart from salary and allowances.

Since the disclosure, many Nigerians have reacted angrily, demanding an end to the outrageous sums.

But reacting Sunday, the senate’s official facebook page reported thus: “Senate Spokesman, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, has said the statements made by his colleague from Kaduna State, Senator Shehu Sani, on the salaries and funds for running of offices of Senators did not disclose anything new as the figure he gave out about running cost of the offices of Senators were contained in various line items and expenditure heads of the budget of the National Assembly which has been made public.

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“Abdullahi dismissed any insinuations that Sani’s colleague were unhappy with him and said if people had looked critically at the budget of the National Assembly which has since been made public, they would have seen that various line items like traveling, medicals, consultancy and the rest were captured in the budget and they were the funds divided for each Senator’s use.

“‘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’, Abdullahi stated”.

 

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