A new report has broken down the
salary that was taken home by the president, his vice and others in one year.
In spite of the cut in the salaries
of President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Professor Yemi Osinbajo, it
has been revealed that both of them including cabinet ministers and other
political appointees pocketed the sum of N2.295 billion as official salaries
and allowances in the last one year.
According to Daily Post, Economic
Confidential gave the breakdown on Sunday in an analysis of official
remunerations of the President, Vice-President, Secretary to the Government of
the Federation and the Head of Service of the Federation, Ministers, and other
top government functionaries as approved by the Revenue Mobilization,
Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC).
RMAFC determines and fixes the
remuneration packages of public and political office holders, while the
National Salaries, Wages and Income Commission fixes the salaries and
allowances of civil servants in Nigeria.
Packages by RMAFC include: annual
salaries, accommodation, vehicle maintenance/fuel, personal assistant, house
maintenance, domestic staff, entertainment and utilities allowances.
Other are constituency allowance,
hardship allowance, newspapers and monitoring allowances.
A critical examination of the report
indicates that Mr. President has an annual basic salary of N3.51m, Vice-
President N3.03m, while Ministers, Secretary to the Government of the
Federation, Head of Service and Chairmen of Boards of statutory agencies have N2.02m
respectively.
Special advisers, Speech writers,
Directors General, Accountant General of the Federation, Permanent Secretaries,
CEOs of agencies and INEC Resident Electoral Commissioners, each collect an
annual basic salary of N1.9m. Officers under this category are called ‘members
of constitutional bodies’
It shows that only the President and
the Vice-President enjoy hardship allowances of 50 percent each of their annual
basic salaries; 250 percent as Constituency Allowances and enjoy other perks to
be provided (TBP) by government.
Benefits the duo are entitled to
include, but not limited to: Accommodation, Furniture, Domestic Staff, Personal
Assistants, Newspapers, Vehicles, Entertainment, Maintenance and Estacode.
Meanwhile, Ministers, Advisers,
Permanent Secretaries and INEC Resident Commissioners are entitled to 200
percent of their annual basic salary for Accommodation; 300 percent for
Furniture; 75 percent for Vehicle maintenance and fuel; 25 percent for Personal
Assistant; 75 percent for domestic staff; 45 percent for entertainment; 30
percent for utilities; 15 percent for newspapers, and 20 percent for
monitoring.
While the President and Vice
President’s duty tours and estacode are provided by government at varying
rates, other officials have fixed rates.
The estacode allowance per day for
ministers, SGF, Head of Service and Chairmen of Board is $1000 per night on
foreign trip; Member of constitutional bodies $900 per night; Special Advisers
and Speech Writers $800 per night; Permanent Secretaries, Director-Generals/CEO
of agencies and INEC Electoral Commissioner take $600 per night each on foreign
trips.
A comparism of the figures with
earning of an average Nigerian worker with a minimum wage of N18,000 a month,
show that civil servants will have to work for more than four years before
earning the utility allowance budgeted for Ministers of the Federal Republic.
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