Senator Sumaila Kawu, the lawmaker representing Kano South might have revealed one of the best-kept secrets of the green chambers.
Over the years, there have been calls for the public declaration of the salary of lawmakers in the country to no avail.
The lawmaker has now given an insight into the salary of an average lawmaker in the upper lawmaking house with his revelation that he gets paid N21m monthly.
In an interview with the BBC Hausa Service, Kawau said the official pay of N1 million fixed by the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) drops to around N600,000 after deductions. However, he added that other allowances elevate their pay to N21 million per month.
The lawmaker said the allowances include office running, newspaper money, local travel, and others.
Kawu’s statement comes a day after RMAFC, the body empowered by law to fix salaries and allowances of political office-holders, claimed that each of the 109 senators in the upper chamber receives a total of N1.06m in salary and allowances per month.
RMAFC Chairman, Mohammed Shehu, said this as a form of clarification in response to recent controversies over the real amount each lawmaker earns per month.
But in his BBC Hausa interview, Kawu said, “The amount of salary received per month is less than N1 million. If there are cuts, it comes back to about N600,000. In the Senate, each senator is given N21 million every month as the cost of running his office.”
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