{"id":22,"date":"2018-03-19T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-03-25T11:47:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T11:47:48","slug":"prpfessor-sagays-promised-to-release-details-of-saraki-dogaras-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Prpfessor Sagays promised to release details of Saraki, Dogara\u2019s pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), says the N13m allowances being received by senators is only a tip of the iceberg as Nigerians will be shocked when he releases details of the allowances of the principal officers of the National Assembly.<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 200%;\">The PACAC chairman was responding to revelations by the lawmaker representing Kaduna-Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, that senators receive N700, 000 monthly and a separate N13.5m as running costs.<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 200%;\">Sagay, who has for several years accused federal lawmakers of receiving outrageous allowances, said principal officers of the National Assembly, including the Senate President, Deputy Senate President, Speaker, Deputy Speaker and the majority and minority leaders of both chambers, are receiving far more than what Sani revealed.<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 200%;\">The senior advocate said the polity might explode when he released the details of their allowances<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 200%;\">He said, \u201cThere are many things the press doesn\u2019t know yet. If you come to know the allowances that the leadership of the two houses are getting\u2026 My God! It will blow up the country. What is the Senate President getting? It is not the ordinary N13m.<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 200%;\">\u201cWhat does he get as Senate President? What is the leader of the House getting, what is the deputy leader of the House getting? What is the Deputy Senate President getting? What are the minority leaders getting in both houses? Go and find out. It is an explosive stuff, I tell you. Eventually, I will come out with the figures. I am working on them now. When I am ready, I will come out with them.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 200%;\">Sagay lambasted spokesman for the Senate, Senator Abdullahi Sabi, for saying that the N13.5m allowances were already in the public domain.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), says the N13m allowances being received by senators is only a tip of the iceberg as Nigerians &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}