A member of the 10th Senate and Senator representing Kano South senatorial district of Kano State on the platform of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Abdurrahman Kawu Sumaila has revealed that he earns approximately N21million monthly in salary and allowances.

The lawmaker made this revelation while speaking to BBC Hausa Service on Wednesday morning, saying the allegation of former President Olusegun Obasanjo that members of the National Assembly fix bogus salaries and allowances for themselves is false.

He said that the official pay package was fixed by the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) – the body empowered by law to fix salaries and allowances of political office-holders. The Senator said, “My monthly salary is less than N1million. After deductions, the figure comes down to a little over N600,000.

He added that: “Given the increase effected, in the Senate, each Senator gets N21million every month as running cost.”