The federal government has revealed that there is no Senator or Minister in Nigeria who gets over N1,000,000 Naira as a monthly salary.
The Chairman of the Revenue Mobilization
Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) Mr Mohammed Bello, made this disclosure
in a CHANNELSTV’s monitored interview on Friday.
He said, “Contrary to what many people
perceive or believe that Legislators or Senators have jumbo salaries, no. There
is no Senator or Minister that earns over a million Naira as salary from the
federal government”.
He also expressed dissatisfaction over the
pay of Nigeria’s non-career ambassador.
He revealed that a non-career ambassador
receives the same salary as a deputy director at the federal ministry of
Foreign affairs.
FACTUAL NAIJA NEWS learnt that since
2007-2008 the federal government has not reviewed the salary structure of
political office holders.