The Nigerian Senate has confirmed Senator Shehu Sani’s breakdown of salary and other expenses alloted to the lawmakers.
Recall that before now, Nigerians and Civil Society Groups have been clamouring for an open and transparent National Assembly through the hashtag: #OpenNASS
The Senate spokesman, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi in a statement he personally signed on Sunday, said the statements made by his colleague from Kaduna Central senatorial district, Senator Shehu Sani, on the salaries and funds for running of offices of Senators did not disclose anything new as the figure he gave out about running cost of the offices of Senators were contained in various line items and expenditure heads of the budget of the National Assembly which has been made public.
Abdullahi dismissed any insinuations that Sani’s colleague were unhappy with him and said 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”, Abdullahi stated.
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