Ebun Francis || The speaker of the house of representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara appeared to have taken up the challenge posed by the release of Governor El Rufai’s release of his pay packet and details of his security vote by releasing his pay slips for six months.
Dogara’s pay slips were released by on Tuesday by Turaki Hassan, his spokesperson.
The documents showed the breakdown of the speaker’s salary for October, November, December 2016 and January, February, March 2017.
The details of the pay slips show that Dogara takes home about N300,000 monthly.
However, Governor Nasir has faulted the move of the speaker, stressing that his call was for the national Assembly to make open its finances and disclose details of its budget.
“Governor Nasir El-Rufai would like to reiterate his call for the NASS leadership to do the same and disclose the details of the National Assembly budget, and the salaries and allowances of its leadership,” he had said.
“The call to #OpenNASS is not a personal one. It is one which the leadership of the national assembly owes to all Nigerians. It is, therefore, disingenuous for the speaker to use state government budgets as the excuse for the opacity of the NASS budget. There is no state government in Nigeria with a budget nearly as opaque as that of NASS. In March 2016, this national assembly, led by its chairman, promised to provide a detailed breakdown of the national assembly budget. Nigerians are waiting.”
But Dogara only released his pay slips.
