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Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), constitutional lawyer and former Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) on Tuesday said the salaries and emoluments of Senators and House of Representatives is totally indefensible.

Speaking in a chat with TheScrutiny, Sagay also blasted the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) – the body empowered by law to fix salaries and allowances of political office-holders for lying to Nigerians on the true amount the federal lawmakers earn.


While RMAFC, on Tuesday, revealed that each member of the Senate collects a total monthly salary and allowances of the sum of N1,063,860,
Senator representing Kano South senatorial district of Kano State on the platform of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Abdurrahman Kawu Sumaila, revealed that he earns a cumulative N21million monthly in salary and allowances.

According to Sagay, Kawu's position reflects the true earnings of the Federal lawmakers as against the lied being peddled by RMAFC.

His words "Two things should be noted here. One, it is obvious that the federal lawmakers have been hiding their actual salaries from us because they know that it is outrageous, condemnable and totally indefensible".

"What is shocking to me is why RMAFC came out yesterday lying to the whole country that the total allowances and salaries of senators and House of Representatives is just over N1m. They said it in a very firm and determined manner that if one was not familiar with what goes on, you will believe the figure quoted by RMAFC".

"For me, these N21m is a realistic figure because three years ago, Senator Shehu Sani revealed that they were receiving N13m as allowances and just over N1m as salary, which totals N14m then. Trust Senators, they would have increased it now to that N21m because when they started in 1999, they were receiving less than N2m but they keep increasing the amount every year".

"So, that is the truth that has come out now and Nigerians know what the National Assembly are earning as compared to the rest of the country. It is such a shame and embarrassment, particularly the way they are hiding it. If they know that what they are doing is right, why do they hide it? If they know it is wrong, why are they doing it?"

"This is the story of the black man, lack of comion and consideration of others. It is me and and my family alone at any cost. That is what is killing black countries all over Africa".
https://thescrutinyng.com/2024/08/14/n21m-sagay-blasts-rmafc-for-lying-to-nigerians-on-senators-salaries/

This man is even talking too

Is he also earning N21m monthly

Saao:
This man is even talking too

APC virus has infected them

For this first time, this man is talking like a real professor!

They've always been lying to us




But as sheeples we smile to their gleeful lies 🤥

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Oga sagay with all respect go and rest sir.
There are no differences btw you and the criminal in rmfac.
You have no moral standing to blast anybody.
You are one of major stakeholder and great er of the evil in Nigeria political space today.

We have followed all your so called fake patroitism.
There is no difference between you and pa soyinka.
Rest sir.

hisexcellency34:
Is he also earning N21m monthly

you don't know him during the last istration?

Suddenly this useless Prof of constitutional law that never spoke against all the humongous corruption under Buhari wherein a Associated Prof member of his PACAC team from University of Jos was indicted in examination malpractice have suddenly found his voice. Sagay and Obono-Obla are just useless.

Sagay shouldn't reason like an illiterate.
The senator's salaries is indeed about 1 million Naira by law as stated by RMAFC.
The extra they get about 20m currently comes from allowance.

OBJ clarified that the senators set their own allowances not RMAFC.

This man defended buhari's cluelessness for years and one of Nigeria's problems today.

ivolt:
Sagay shouldn't reason like an illiterate.
The senator's salaries is indeed about 1 million Naira by law as stated by RMAFC.
The extra they get about 20m currently comes from allowance.

OBJ clarified that the senators set their own allowances not RMAFC.

then they should simply disclose it and even go further to break it down.
We all know that salaries make up of different items like transport,feeding, basic etc.
You guys should stop defending nothing and destroying Nigeria.

In as much as I agree with Sagay, I will say here that he is one the idi@ts that ed Buhari through thick and thin when he was looting the country with his Fulani brothers. So why is he coming out now? Buhari is the biggest undisclosed, less talked about, less investigated criminal in Nigeria. He loot and looted like an illiterate that the whole nation kept feeling the impact after the thief left to reside in Daura

SmartPolician:
For this first time, this man is talking like a real professor!

Professor kor
Professor ni.
Inec chairman no be prof


Bc crumbs no reach am
Settle him and he will start singing.

Mumu talk

descarado:

Professor kor
Professor ni.
Inec chairman no be prof


Bc crumbs no reach am
Settle him and he will start singing.

This Itse Sagay Man is like MannaVultureGrills.

Staunch er of APC/Buhari and now sidelined.

slivertongue:
APC virus has infected them

A Failure must always blame others for them been certified Failures.

Nonybb:
In as much as I agree with Sagay, I will say here that he is one the idi@ts that ed Buhari through thick and thin when he was looting the country with his Fulani brothers. So why is he coming out now? Buhari is the biggest undisclosed, less talked about, less investigated criminal in Nigeria. He loot and looted like an illiterate that the whole nation kept feeling the impact after the thief left to reside in Daura

You this incoherent Obidient, na Buhari thief your state & Local Government allocations abi?

Says a lot about your upbringing

Racoon:
Suddenly this useless Prof of constitutional law that never spoke against all the humongous corruption under Buhari wherein a Associated Prof member of his PACAC team from University of Jos was indicted in examination malpractice have suddenly found his voice. Sagay and Obono-Obla are just useless.

I am still surprised at the utter lack of comprehension of Nigerians.

What exactly did Senator Sumaila Kawu say that RMAFC did not already disclose considering the actual salary versus the allowances which is not a salary?

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.”

The Senator practically corroborated what RMAFC said, but we just want to insist that the National Assembly is like a salary windfall for whoever find themselves there.

The salary of a Senator is totally different from the allowances that is used to run the office of a Senator.

ivolt:
Sagay shouldn't reason like an illiterate.
The senator's salaries is indeed about 1 million Naira by law as stated by RMAFC.
The extra they get about 20m currently comes from allowance.

OBJ clarified that the senators set their own allowances not RMAFC.

I don't know why a professor will actually reason like a beer parlour political analyst.

If people would not believe RMAFC and would twist the further clarification that the Senator gave, then the mob should just be left to their ignorance so they can continue cooking up figures in their head to feed their anger.