The huge and large amount being paid as salary
to the country’s legislators, which is ranked the highest in the world,
according to a new study, has attracted criticisms from Nigerians across the
country, including economists and lawyers. The Economist magazine revealed that
Nigerian federal legislators with a basic salary of $189,500 per annum (N30.6m)
were the highest paid lawmakers in the world.
Report gave that; the basic salary (which
excludes allowances) of a Nigerian lawmaker is 116 times the country’s GDP per
person of $1,600. The $189,500 earned annually by each Nigerian legislator is
estimated to be 52 per cent higher than what Kenya legislators, who are the
second highest paid lawmakers, earned.
The report had suggested that a Nigerian
federal lawmaker earned $189,000 or about N30m annually. The magazine also
published details of the annual salaries of legislators in other countries,
some of which include Ghana, $46,500; Indonesia, $65,800; Thailand, $43,800;
India, $11,200; Italy, $182,000; Bangladesh, N4, 000; Israel, $114,800; Hong
Kong, $130,000; Japan, $149,700; and Singapore, $154,000. The big
question now is that are these so called people being paid just to discuss
about bills of marrying teenage daughters or have other better thing to
really discuss?
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