The Socio-economic Rights and Accountability Project says it has secured a favourable court judgement which ordered the review of salaries and allowances of Nigerian legislators.
SERAP disclosed this in tweet on Friday.
It stated that the court mandated the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission “to fix the salaries and allowances of 469 members of the National Assembly to reflect the economic realities in the country”.
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The judgment was reportedly passed by Justice Chuka Austine Obiozor.
SERAP recalled that a Senator, Shehu Sani, had claimed in 2018 that “each senator receives N13.5 million Monthly as running cost in addition to over N750,000.00 monthly consolidated salary and allowances”.
Among other things, RMAFC’s objectives is weaved around reviewing the cost of governance.