The Senate has confirmed the revelation by Shehu Sani, the Senator representing Kaduna Central that each Nigerian Senator collects N13.5 million running cost monthly.
Straightnews had reported last week that the Senator dropped this bombshell during an interview with The News magazine.
Aliyu Abdullahi, the Senate spokesperson, said said the revelation recently made by Sani that each member of the red chamber receives N13.5 million monthly is “nothing new.”
Abdullahi said the details revealed to the public by Senator are already contained in budget for the National Assembly.
He said the details are “contained in various line items and expenditure heads of the budget of the National Assembly which has been made public. If people had looked critically at the budget of the National Assembly which has since been made public, they would have seen that various line items like traveling, medicals, consultancy and the rest were captured in the budget and they were the funds divided for each senator’s use.
“Almost all holders of elective and appointive offices have running costs allocated to their offices and that cannot be said to be part of their salaries.”
(Naija.news)
