Professor Itse Sagay, says he
earns N200,000 per month as the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee
Against Corruption, while the four other members of the committee earn N160,000
per month.
Sagay made the disclosure in a
chat with Punch newspaper.
The Law Professor, however,
insisted that Nigerian lawmakers were earning far above the N13.5m monthly
running cost recently confirmed by Senator Shehu Sani.
“The information I am getting
informally is that the NASS leaders are earning between N800m and N1bn as running
cost every year.
“I don’t have concrete
information yet, but from a very reliable source, that’s what I’m hearing. Once
I have the concrete evidence, I will release it,” Sagay said.
He also defended by President
Buhari and Vice President Osinbajo, arguing that unlike members of the National
Assembly, they were not earning any form of extravagant allowance.
“I can confirm to you that the
two are earning just their basic salaries, around N1.7m per month for the
President and a little less for the Vice President.
“Anything else that is voted for
their offices doesn’t go into their accounts. They don’t see the money.
“That’s the difference between
them and the lawmakers. In the National Assembly, these people are handling
cash,” he added.
He added that Nigeria was not yet
‘mature enough’ for former presidents like Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck
Jonathan who allegedly looted the treasury to be put on trial.
“It will take a long time, when
we’ve developed and become more mature, to do that kind of thing. Right now, if
you touch a former president, the storm that it will bring will be so
diversionary and disturbing that it will affect your capacity to do positive
things for the citizens.
“In my own thinking, you have to
leave them alone and go for those who carried out the act of looting.
“There is a radical change in the
government right now, but talking about the arrest of former presidents, I
don’t think we are ripe for it.
“There will be too many
sentiments; people will threaten to carry arms to defend their ‘son’. Nigeria
is not an easy country.
“One must step as if one is on
eggshell; do what you can do now, and suspend what you can’t do now because of
our immature culture. Maybe this will change in the future,” he said.
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