THE SALARY SCHEME OF NIGERIAN LEGISLATORS

The controversy over the monthly salary of a Nigerian lawmaker has finally been laid to rest with a formal disclosure of what the legislators earn. The National Institute of Legislative Studies, NILS, apparently worried by growing public outcry against the Nigerian lawmakers, on Friday released a set of documents, showing what constitutes the earnings of the 109 Senators and 360 members of the Nigerian House of Representatives.The documents, which were made available to Vanguard in Abuja on Friday, indicated that the Nigerian lawmakers earn perhaps one of the least salaries among legislators in the world, as against the notion that their pay was outrageous.

           Apart from releasing   global comparative figures drawn from nine countries

COUNTRIES WITH THE WORLD MOST HIGHLY PAID LEGISLATORS

A global comparison released by the NILS(National Institute of Legislative Studies) shows the countries with the Highest paid Lawmakers. The ranking goes thus:

National Institute of Legislative Studies,

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1. Legislators in the Philippines earn the highest annual basic salary of $4, 497,957,
2. United States of America where a Senator goes home with $3,409,422 while a member of the US House of Representatives takes $1,429,909 home annually.
3. Kenyan Lawmakers who earn $968,013 per annum
4. Australia where Lawmakers take home $646,230
5. United Kingdom with £494,285.43.
6. India, where Lawmakers earn $474,484 per annum
7. Singapore with $253,469
8. Tanzania with $230,961.
9. Nigeria where a Senator earns N33, 992, 360 and a Member of the House of Representatives earns N33,347, 985, 50 .