The Chairman of the Presidential
Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), says the N13m
allowances being received by senators is only a tip of the iceberg as Nigerians
will be shocked when he releases details of the allowances of the principal
officers of the National Assembly.
Sagay said this during an
interview with our correspondent.
The PACAC chairman was responding
to revelations by the lawmaker representing Kaduna-Central Senatorial District,
Shehu Sani, that senators receive N700,000 monthly and a separate N13.5m as
running costs.
Sagay, who has for several years
accused federal lawmakers of receiving outrageous allowances, said principal
officers of the National Assembly, including the Senate President, Deputy
Senate President, Speaker, Deputy Speaker and the majority and minority leaders
of both chambers, are receiving far more than what Sani revealed.
The senior advocate said the
polity might explode when he released the details of their allowances.
He said, “There are many things
the press doesn’t know yet. If you come to know the allowances that the
leadership of the two houses are getting… My God! It will blow up the country.
What is the Senate President getting? It is not the ordinary N13m.
“What does he get as Senate
President? What is the leader of the House getting, what is the deputy leader
of the House getting? What is the Deputy Senate President getting? What are the
minority leaders getting in both houses? Go and find out. It is an explosive
stuff, I tell you. Eventually, I will come out with the figures. I am working on
them now. When I am ready, I will come out with them.”
Sagay lambasted spokesman for the
Senate, Senator Abdullahi Sabi, for saying that the N13.5m allowances were
already in the public domain.
The PACAC chairman said it was
hypocritical of the lawmakers to have berated him last year when he released
details of their allowances.
He added that Sani’s revelation
was at variance with the details released by Saraki last year.
He added, “What they released
then was their salaries which the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal
Commission approved for them. What they are hiding now are the allowances they
voted for themselves.
“The salary details released was
just about N700,000 but what they voted for themselves is about 20 times that
amount. That is the whole point and they were hiding it.
“I came out with the figures last
year and they wanted to cut off my neck and now it has come out in the open and
Sabi Abdullahi is saying it is nothing new but you were denying it in the past.
So, they have a guilty conscience because they know what they are doing is
shameful.”
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