The amount President-elect Bola Tinubu and other Governors-elect will pocket as monthly salary has been revealed.
The revelation was made by the Executive Chairman, Revenue
Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Mohammed Shehu.
He said the monthly salary of the Nigerian President currently
stands at N1.2 million, while that of Governors is pegged at N1.1
million.
He said President-elect, Bola Tinubu, would earn the same package
unless the the proposed review of the Remuneration Act for elected and
designated public officials designed by RMAFC is passed into law before
President Muhamamdu Buhari administration winds down on May 29.
Shehu said some heads of Federal Government agencies earn higher
monthly salaries than the president and governors. He noted that no
public servant ought to earn higher than the president or state
governors.
He made these disclosures in Abuja at the Economic Confidential public lecture and book presentation themed “Economic diversification in an evolving cashless society”
organized by Economic Confidential, Publishers of PR Nigeria and
Economy Digest. Two books were unveiled at the occasion- Pantami: Trials
& Triumphs Digital Economy Maestro and The eNarial Revolution.
The RMAFC Chairman said: “The salary of Mr. President is N1.2
million a month. I’m sure some MDAs heads earn N5million and some N2
million a month. No public servant in Nigeria should earn more than Mr.
President and the governor of a state. Elected National Assembly members
earn N12 million and N8million respectively. All those monies some
people alluded to are not their salary. They have operational costs and
other expenses added to it. These monies were put into it by the
National Assembly as logistics and they are paid from the system. We
don’t have the power to checkmate that. Only the Nigerian public can
challenge that.”
He recalled that the salaries of political office holders and other
designated public and judicial office holders were last reviewed in
2008, emphasising that the exercise was overdue for review.
He said revenue from solid minerals is now being shared while 13
percent derivation is paid to solid minerals producing states as is the
case with oil producing states.
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