The Federal Government has revealed that there is no Senator or Minister in Nigeria who earns more than N1,000,000 naira in monthly.
The Chairman of Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Mohammed Bello Shehu, when he appeared on Channels Television Sunrise Daily programme on Friday.
He said this while denying the notion that the review of the remuneration the RMAFC has embarked on is to increase the salary of politicians and political office holders.
Shehu, in sharp contrast to some people’s perception, Nigerian lawmakers and ministers don’t have jumbo salaries.
He said, “There are lots of lapses there (remuneration), so this is what has informed us to do this exercise now, it is not true that we are just trying to like put a bonus or a jumbo package to president, governors and legislators, and contrary to what a lot of people perceive and believe to be so that legislators and senators have jumbo salaries, no; there is no legislator, no senator, no minister that earns over a million naira a month in Nigeria.”
The RMAFC Chairman said the remuneration review exercise was ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari following a recent serious agitation for review of salary of judges, adding that they are going beyond just salaries to fix other issues as well.