Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, has shed light on the controversial N13m that a Nigerian senator is said to be receiving.
According to him, no Nigerian senator gets N13m monthly as alleged, but the amount is what they get as quarterly office allowance.
He said a senator’s salary was N1.5m while while a member of the House of Reps got N1.3m.
Lawan disclosed this on Monday, in a paper presented at the First Distinguished Parliamentarians Lecture Series organised by the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies.
He said, “The total salary of a member of the Senate is about N1.5m while that of the House of Representatives is about N1.3m.
“The quarterly office allowance for legislators is what is erroneously conflicted with a monthly income to create confusion and mislead the Nigerians.
“The average office running cost for a senator is about N13m while that of a member of the House of Representatives is N8m.”
Lawan’s lecture was titled, ‘The Legislature, Legislative Mandate and People – The Reality and the Public Perception.’
He said the N13m and the N8m quarterly office running cost for a member of the Senate and House of Representatives respectively, were the lowest of any Presidential democracy in the world.
The allowances as enumerated by him, cover costs of local/international travel, consulting of professional services, medical services, office stationeries/computers, consumables, books, newspapers, magazines, maintenance of motor vehicles and office equipment among others.
