Monthly salary of senators now officially revealed by RMAFC

According to the RMAFC’s report, it has become possible to reveal the monthly earnings of Nigerian Senators.

As stated by RMAFC, every one of its 109 members receives N1,063,860 remuneration and allowance in a month.

To put this further into perspective, the Commission said each senator gets a basic salary of N168,866:70; motor vehicle fuelling and maintenance allowance – N126,650:00; personal assistant – N42,216:66; domestic staff – N126,650:00; entertainment – N50,660:00; utilities –N50,660:00; Newspapers/periodicals –N25,330:00; wardrobe–N42,216.66 :00w house maintenanceN8.443.33 : 00and constituency allowance –N422166.66 respectively.’

The Chairman of RMAFC named Mallam Shehu disclosed this breakdown on Tuesday.

Further according to him some allowances are regular while others are non-regular.

“Regular allowances are paid regularly with basic salary while non-regular allowances are paid as when due,” he added

“For instance Furniture Allowance (N6,079,200:00) is paid once in every tenure and Severance Gratuity (N6.079200.0) is also paid once while Vehicle Allowance (8.105600.0) which is optional is a loan that must be repaid before leaving office,” he added

He also revealed that in addition to the President of Federal Republic of Nigeria his vice and senate president as well as speaker House Representatives

Culled from NigeriaNeye

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