Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio for superintending over the National Assembly (NASS) that undermines Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMFAC) by fixing humongous salaries and allowances for the lawmakers while Nigerians go hungry, poor and unsecured.
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general elections in a press statement on Wednesday signed by his Media Adviser, Paul Ibeh, noted that Senator Sumaila Kawu has courageously stepped up to assert that his monthly take home is N21 million in allowances apart from about N1 million in salary thus vindicating former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s accusation that it was wrong of the Senator Godswill Akpabio-led NASS to fix own salaries and allowances in contravention of the laws of Nigeria.
The statement reads, “The position of Sen. Sumaila (I do hope that the chopping Sen. Akpabio will not suspend him like Ningi or strip him of his position like Ndume) not only confirms what Obasanjo said, it also puts a lie to the official response of the Senate that it doesn’t fix its own salaries and allowances.
“In an institution populated with lackeys with no balls to hold the reckless executive to account, Sen. Sumaila’s courageous act is worthy of commendation.
“It’s, however, ironic that the NASS which is saddled with the task of making laws for the good governance of Nigeria, is the one that is breaking the law and undermining the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMFAC), which is the commission that is constitutionally empowered to fix salaries and allowances of public officials, including members of the NASS.
“It’s the responsibility of the RMFAC to man up and implement the law as it relates to fixing the salaries and allowances of public officials.
“Akpabio and his “chop (ping))” gang can now see why the hungry and justifiably angry Nigerians took to the streets for 10 days on the #EndBackGovernanceProtest to #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria.
“And for the Dele Alakes of this world, who has stepped up the propaganda machinery of the President Bola Tinubu administration, the “Movement” he alluded to were not focused on forcing a change of government, but to sack the hunger in their stomachs caused by the trial-and-error policies of this administration,” the former Vice President added.
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