BEVERLY HILLS, April 12, (THEWILL) – Suspended member of the House of Representatives, Abdulmumin Jibrin, has stated that if the pay slips released by the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, is anything to go by, then he (Jibrin) earns more than the nation’s number four citizen.
Barely 24 hours after Governor Nasir El-Rufai published the breakdown of his security budget among other items and challenged principal officers of the National Assembly to show transparency in their use of public funds, Dogara released his pay slips showing a breakdown of his salary from October 2016 to March 2017.
Reacting in a series of tweets on Wednesday, the suspended lawmaker said he has requested his pay slips from the National Assembly and would publish it.
He tweeted, “If what I saw is the authentic pay slip of Mr Speaker, it means I earn more than him from what I see in my salary statement of account.
“I have requested for my pay slip from NASS, I will publish it and my monthly salary statement of account. Perhaps I have been over paid.”
Jibrin further stated that the statement issued by the House of Reps spokesman in response to El-Rufai’s challenge failed to address the call by Nigerians and majority of members for the Speaker to disclose details of the internal budget of the lower chamber.
He pointed out that the leadership of the House should not think it is doing the public a favour by disclosing details of the budget.
His tweets continued, “Beside salaries, allowances and running cost , no member has details of about 20 other expenditure heads captured in Namdas statement
“I am aware majority of members feel terribly embarrassed and are presently insisting on having access to the internal budget of the House
“The details of INEC budget does not just ‘exist else where’. The NASS scrutinizes and approve details of INEC budget every year
“Mr Speaker, you know that NILS HQ is not completely funded from NASS allocation but part funded by FG under service wide vote.”
