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The Chairman of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Muhammed Shehu, says that political office holders in Nigeria do not earn as much as their workers in some federal government agencies.
In an interview with journalists on Sunday in Abuja, Mr Shehu said the report that political office holders earned outrageous emoluments was not true.
Nigerians recently condemned reports on a proposed 114 per cent increase in salaries of political office holders by the commission, amid what they described as biting economic hardships in the country.
“People in the NNPC, NCC, and ports authority earn huge salaries. What is the salary of a governor? What is the salary of a legislator?”
He, however, said that it was the constitutional responsibility of RMAFC to determine and review the salaries of executive, legislative, and judicial officers.
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