Senator Dino Melaye has expressed displeasure at the huge allowances set to be paid to Nigerian lawmakers describing them as ‘bogus.’
“I say no to huge allowances in the prevailing economic hardship”
Melaye, who represents the Kogi West Senatorial District, made the statement following reports that the legislators are set to receive a pay-out of N8.64 billion as wardrobe allowance.
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“I expect the APC leadership to take a stand on bogus allowances in the NASS. I say no to huge allowances in the prevailing economic hardship,” the Senator tweeted on Wednesday, June 17, 2015.
Nigerians had expressed outrage after reports of the proposed allowance emerged.
However, Senator Ajayi Boroffice of Ondo State has said that the sum is meant for the miscellaneous allowances of the legislators and not just the wardrobe allowance.
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