Nigerian Senators Reject Pay Cut Recommendation

                    

The Senate on Wednesday suspended consideration of the Finance Committee due to disagreement of its member over pay cut.
The senator in a two hours close door meeting, decide to  reject the reduction of salaries and allowances as recommended by the Senator James Manager’s committee.They said  it was not possible to accept pay cut with other beneficiaries of the N120bn National Assembly annual budget not doing same  according to PUNCH


Senator Matthew Urhoghide (PDP Edo South),reveals that in the close door session of the Senate they agreed  to be very cautious on accepting reduction of salaries and allowances.Urhoghide said that majority of the senators agreed that “funny allowances” like the monthly N42,000 wardrobe allowance should be cut off completely.

He said, “Yes, as recommended by the committee, all senators agreed that there must be openness in Senate budget and by extension, that of the National Assembly.

At the same time, many reasoned that why should we further reduce our budget when already, N30bn has been reduced from the traditional 150bn that it used to be for all the seven different organs of the National Assembly.

“All of us have people in our constituencies and financial requests from them keep piling up on a daily basis, the reality of which made steps to be redirected, otherwise, some of us may stop coming here.”