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Senators, Reps lament delay in salary payment
High level corruption going on in the National Assembly is delaying prompt payment of salaries and allowances of members by the management of the nation’s highest lawmaking institution. New Telegraph’s investigations revealed that salaries and allowances of the federal legislators are now paid between second and third week of another month, a situation that members described as unacceptable.
Investigations also revealed that although the lawmakers both in the Senate and the House of Representatives have been applying restraints not to make the matter public in order to avoid provoking controversies that would heat up the polity, the politicians are going through cash crunch as well as difficulty meeting their constituency obligations.
New Telegraph correspondent discovered that the August salaries of the lawmakers were paid on Friday September 8, while their allowances for the same month had not been paid as at the time of filing this report.
This development has, therefore, provoked suspicion among the lawmakers that the management of the National Assembly might be lodging their money in fixed deposit accounts to generate interests for them before releasing the funds to pay the lawmakers’ emoluments. Confirming this ugly situation, a member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Umar Faruk, regretted that he could no longer solve his immediate needs, let alone fulfilling his financial and other obligations to his constituents.
New Telegraph, September 11, 2017
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yanju omotodun
September 11, 2017 at 11:51 am
Useless set of fellows, who are they deceiving, to hell with them, outrageous salary paid to them is not justified
JOHNSON PETER
September 11, 2017 at 2:03 pm
Copy copy, you copy the comment from facebook, this is plagiarism
yanju omotodun
September 11, 2017 at 12:46 pm
Na dem sabi, if they like they pay them and if they don’t like, they should not pay them,, after all the corrupt money they do get is more than what they do pay them
Abeni Adebisi
September 11, 2017 at 2:48 pm
The lawmakers have received their August salaries, delay in payment of allowances isn’t a ugly situation, it will only be ugly if they didn’t receive their salaries at all.
Anita Kingsley
September 11, 2017 at 2:53 pm
The lawmakers don’t deserve any payment, most of them are underperforming in their constituencies and pocketing all the monies budgetted for constituency projects.
Animashaun Ayodeji
September 11, 2017 at 3:25 pm
I think the federal government should delay their salaries and allowances for four months, so they can know how it feels to be broke.
Anita Kingsley
September 11, 2017 at 3:35 pm
These guys are idiots honestly! Their salaries and allowances are only being delayed and they are shouting! Not that they are not getting paid at all, what will now happen if they didn’t get paid?