10th N’Assembly: Members Pocket N5.87bn Annual Housing Allowance

Afimag.com –

Members of the tenth national assembly  will get about N5.87bn housing allowances annually.

Areas for the accommodations are Maitama, Asokoro, Wuse, and a few other locations near the city centre.

The allowances are contained in a document on Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Allocation Commission website.

With the the current trend, it is clear that Federal Government will spend N23.48bn on the lawmakers’ accommodation in four years.

From the total amount, the housing allowances of the Senators will cost about N1.38bn yearly, excluding the Senate President and Deputy Senate President. The stipulated amount is for 107 senators.

Further analysis shows that about  N4.05m was allocated for accommodation. The sum of N1.52m is for domestic staff while N607,920 is for utilities. N101,320 is for house maintenance, wardrobe gulps N506,600 and N6.08m is for furniture allowance.

The housing allowances of the House of Representatives members will cost N4.49bn yearly excluding the Speaker and Deputy Speaker.

In addition, Isma’ila Maihanchi, member-elect of the House of Representatives for Jalingo/Yorro/Zing federal constituency in Taraba, is reportedly dead. Also, Femi Gbajabiamila, a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, resigned from the 10th House to take up his new position as the chief of staff to President Bola Tinubu.

Therefore, the specified amount covers only the allowances for the 356 House of Representatives members.

A breakdown shows that N3.97m was allocated for accommodation, N1.48m for domestic staff, N595,563.75 for utilities, N99,260.62 for house maintenance, N496,303.12 for wardrobe allowance, and N5.96m for furniture allowance.

Since the allocations for the Senate President and his deputy and the Speaker and his Deputy were not disclosed, it means that the N5.87bn is likely below the total amount the members of the National Assembly would get as housing allowances yearly.