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The Nigerian Senate has recently been enmeshed in controversies concerning what members get as their monthly take-home, considering the economic challenges that the country is facing and the lamentation about hunger from the majority of the people.
While 99 of the 109 Nigerian serving senators were said to be getting approximately N2.079 billion monthly, the take-home of the ten remaining senators remained shrouded.
Source: Twitter
The N2.079 billion monthly earnings of the 99 federal lawmakers were based on the revelation by one of them, Senator Abdulrahman Kawu Sumaila of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNP), who confirmed that he received N21 million monthly as a benefit for representing the people of Kano South Senatorial District.
However, Sumaila could not ascertain what the remaining ten high-ranking senators of the 10th National Assembly take home on a monthly basis.
Daily Trust reported that attempts to disclose the monthly earnings of the Senate's high-ranking officers have been unsuccessful. Despite inquiries, even former lawmakers have expressed uncertainty about the officers' salaries and allowances.
The Senate's spokesperson, Yemi Adaramodu, did not respond to calls and messages seeking information on the principal officers' earnings, leaving the details of their monthly pay unknown.
Below is the list of the high-ranking senators with special pay:
Godswill Akpabio
Akpabio is the current Senate president and the highest-ranking senator in the 10th Senate. By ranking, he is the highest-ranking Nigerian senator presently based on the position he is holding.
The current senate president serves as a senator representing Akwa Ibom north-west for the second term. He was a two-term governor of the South-South state and a former minister under the immediate past President Muhammadu Buhari.
Jibrin Barau
Barau is the deputy senate president and the second highest-ranking senator after Akpabio. He is representing Kano North for the third time in the Nigeria senate.
The Kano-born politician was a former House of Representatives member on the return of democracy in Nigeria. He was in the lower chamber between 1999-2003.
Opeyemi Bamidele
The lawmaker representing the good people of Ekiti Central senatorial district is the current majority leader in the Senate.
The Ekiti-born politician is a second-term senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He has been in the Senate since 2019.
Lola Ashiru
This is another high-ranking senator representing the people of Kwara South Senatorial District in the Senate. Ashiru is the deputy majority leader of the Nigerian Senate.
In August 2018, Lola Ashiru and other PDP members in Kwara State defected to the APC to oppose Bukola Saraki's political dynasty, which they believed had mismanaged the state for 16 years.
Tahir Monguno
The Borno-born federal lawmaker is the next in line in the ranking of Nigerian senators. The APC caucus recently elected him as the Senate's Chief Whip following the removal of Ali Ndume.
Ndume was accused of anti-party activities and was asked to resign his membership from the ruling party following his outburst that President Bola Tinubu had been caged by the people around him.
Abba Moro
The senator representing Benue North-East has been in the senate since 2019 after he replaced a two-term senate president, David Mark.
Moro was a former minister of Interior and the current chairman of the governing council of the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, Benue state capital.
Source: Legit.ng
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