About N12, 967, 600,000 has been spent by Nigeria in two months to maintain National Assembly members, who were inaugurated on June 9, it has been learnt. While each of the 109 senators got N36.4 million each; the 360 members of the House of Representatives received N25 million each.
N10milion was first paid to each of the lawmakers in June to ‘cushion’ the difficulty of settling down in Abuja, the amount, which was to cover their expenses on housing, transport and furniture, cost the country about N4.6billion.
The Senators and representatives, got N13.4 million and N7 million each, respectively, last month under a pro-rata arrangement for quarterly allowance covering June. Before going on break last Thursday, Senators got N13 million each and representatives, N8 million. The legislators have gone on recess three times and have yet to pass a bill since their inauguration in June, 2015.
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