Hon. Yakubu Dogara
The Speaker of the House of the Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has denied knowledge of the jumbo salaries reportedly being earned by Nigerian legislators.
The lawmaker made this claim while speaking with newsmen shortly after paying a courtesy visit to Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau.
According to him, “when I hear about jumbo pay for legislators I get confused.
“The issue of salary is quite clear because we don’t fix our salaries; it is the responsibility of the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission to do that.
“Any Nigerian that wants the information can take the benefit of the Freedom of Information Act to request for this information from the commission.
“I do know that our salary is not in the region of N1 million per month.’’
Dogara also claimed that he not was aware of discussions that related to the allowances being paid to members.
He said that his leadership of the House would be fair and just in the distribution of committees to members.
“We will do everything possible to ensure that from zonal level, there is fairness in whatever we do there up to the state level.
“And once we achieve that, we are 100 per cent guaranteed that there will be stability even though politics is all about resolving conflicts.
“Conflicts arise as a result of human imperfection; we will never run away from conflicts but we will always rise above conflicts,” he said.
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