- Nigeria’s senators’ allowances and salaries have been revealed to be N1,063,860, days after former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s outburst
- The chairman of RMAFC, Muhammed Bello Shehu, made the disclosure while faulting former Senator Shehu Sani’s revelation
- Ex-President Obasanjo had alleged that the senators fixed their salaries by themselves, adding that such an act was immoral, while Sani claimed that each senator gets N13.5 million in allowances
The Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) has disclosed Nigerian senators’ salaries and allowances, following former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s allegations that the lawmakers allocate salaries to themselves.
Muhammed Bello Shehu, the chairman of RMAFC, disclosed N1,063,860 on Tuesday, August 13, as the senators’ earnings days after Obasanjo commented that many federal lawmakers should be behind bars.
