{"id":335501,"date":"2024-08-20T06:51:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T05:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=335501"},"modified":"2024-08-20T06:51:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T05:51:55","slug":"n29m-monthly-for-senators-cant-do-much-i-became-poorer-as-a-senator-elisha-abbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2024\/08\/20\/n29m-monthly-for-senators-cant-do-much-i-became-poorer-as-a-senator-elisha-abbo\/","title":{"rendered":"N29m monthly for senators can&#8217;t do much, I became poorer as a senator \u2013  Elisha Abbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Abbo noted that their monthly take home is only \u201cbig on paper\u201d and not enough for the demands and challenges of their office.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Elisha Abbo, a former lawmaker who represented Adamawa North in the Senate, has weighed in on the controversy surrounding the salary of senators.<\/p>\n<p>For years on end, Nigerians have kicked against what they considered humongous salaries that are paid to federal lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo recently called out federal lawmakers for determining their own salaries and allowances, calling it immoral.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are not supposed to fix your salaries or allowances; it is supposed to be done by the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith all due respect, you know it\u2019s not right; it is not right for me to be the one to determine what I pay myself; it is immoral, and you are doing it; the Senate is doing it,\u201d Obasanjo said.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate, however, debunked the claims by Obasanjo, calling them lies.<\/p>\n<p>The Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) also stated that each of the 109 senators in the upper chamber receives a total of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2024\/08\/14\/its-dishonest-to-claim-senators-earn-n1-million-monthly-shehu-sani-slams-rmafc\/\">N1.06m in salary<\/a> and allowances per month.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the matter, Abbo stated that the monthly earnings of senators are not a lot of money.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on Arise Television, Abbo noted that their monthly take home is only \u201cbig on paper\u201d and not enough for the demands and challenges of their office.<\/p>\n<p>Abbo recalled that his salary and allowances while serving as a senator was N14.4 million monthly, while current senators earn up to N29 million monthly.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cWhen I was in the Senate, cumulatively, all the allowances were N14.4 million per month. You have a wardrobe allowance, a vehicle allowance, and other allowances put together that were N14.4 million, including the N1 million salary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is about N29 million now. N29 million looks big on paper<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m saying this as an honest man. I\u2019m not trying to support the National Assembly, and I\u2019ve been a member of that vilified institution for five years. I am not standing with them, but I\u2019ll bear the facts on the table.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking further, he said he became poorer after quitting his business to become a lawmaker.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI had to leave the company I founded, in which I was the Managing Director\/Chief Executive Officer, to go into governance when I won the election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to start subsiding my life because the money that was allocated to my office was absolutely nothing considering the demand and challenges faced by my own constituents on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a case of just one person I took to the hospital; I spent N14 million on one person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd every month, from all over Adamawa State and other states, my office was besieged with people looking for help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to start calling some state governors to help me with cases that are being brought from their states into my office.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abbo noted that their monthly take home is only \u201cbig on paper\u201d and not enough for the demands and challenges of their office. 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