President of the Eighth Senate,
Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has directed that the National Assembly Management
should distribute his Severance Allowance to families of three victims of the
insurgency in the North-East.
He also directed that children of
late senators be also included in the list of beneficiaries.
In a statement signed by his Special
Adviser (Media and Publicity), Yusuph Olaniyonu, Saraki stated that the
Severance Allowance should be used to support the families of Leah Sharibu, who
is being held by Boko Haram.
He said that part of the money
should also be donated to the families of two humanitarian workers abducted and
subsequently murdered by Boko Haram insurgents – Hussaini Ahmed Khoisan and
Hauwa Liman.
Also to benefit from the money
are children of late members of the Eight Senate who may require financial
assistance in furtherance of their education as a Trust Fund is to be
established by the management of the National Assembly for the purpose.
He stated that his decision to
use the severance package to support the selected victims of the insurgency was
based on the fact that their cases represented some of the most touching
humanitarian issues debated at the plenary during the four-years of the Eighth
Senate and on which his colleagues and himself made emotional and passionate
speeches.
According to him, 20 per cent of
the severance allowance is to be donated to the family of Leah Sharibu while 20
percent is also to be paid to the family of Hauwa Liman, the aid worker
brutally murdered by Boko Haram after she was captured.
Another 20 percent is to be
donated to the family of the second aid worker, Hussaini Ahmed Khoisan, also
murdered in the same circumstance by Boko Haram.
The remaining 40 percent should
be used by the National Assembly Management to set up a TRUST FUND that will
assist children of deceased members of the Eighth Senate who are in financial
need for their education.
“It is my hope that this TRUST
FUND should grow with more contributions from my dear colleagues, present, past
and future, who may be moved to put in additional money into it.
“The Clerk of the National
Assembly will immediately get an official letter from me mandating him to act
as stated above on the disbursement of my Severance Allowance”, Saraki added.
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