Senator Sumaila Kawu, the Lawmaker representing Kano South, has disclosed that he gets more than N21m monthly as a total take-home package.
Kawu, who made the disclosure in an interview with the BBC Hausa Service, stated that the official pay of N1 million fixed by the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) is reduced to around N600,000 after deductions.
According to him, there are other allowances that take their total pay to N21 million every month.
“The amount of salary received per month is less than N1 million. If there are cuts, it comes back to about N600,000. In the Senate, each senator is given N21 million every month as the cost of running his office,” Kawu said.
Speaking further, Kawu shared that the allowances include office running, newspaper money, local travel and others.
His remarks come after RMAFC, which fixes salaries and allowances of political office-holders, stated that each of the 109 senators in the upper chamber receives a total of N1.06m in salary and allowances per month.
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