Beroro T. Efekoro, a Nigerian – born United States legislator representing Albany County in 7th District of New York comments on Nigerian Legislators’ Pay.

Beroro made his comments on controversy surrounding the salaries and allowances payable to Members of National Assembly of Federal Republic of Nigeria. According to the press statement by Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) to counter what former senator of Federal Republic of Nigeria, Mr. Shehu Sani said about the take home of Nigerian Lawmakers as salaries and allowances.
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The statement by the RMAFC states that, “each Senator collects a monthly salary and allowances of the sum of N1,063,860.”

In response, New York lawmaker Beroro Efekoro stated that “The one who made the allegations was a former senator and knows how much he was receiving. Even you, the person who made this write-up (The Press Statement), know that the breakdown you have provided is what is on paper for the sake of formality.”

The lawmaker further wrote that “The Nigerian government and politicians continue to push Nigerians to the wall but forgetting that Nigerians never forget, Nigerians only let things slide for as much as we can bear.”

We reached out to the New York lawmaker to get some clarifications and he went further to say he still has faith in the administration of President Bola Tinubu, but that the National Assembly should not be a rubber stamp to the President.

Efekoro stated that the Senate President needs to stop intimidating those senators who wish to hold the president accountable to the citizens of Nigeria.

“I plead with my fellow Nigerians to give the Tinubu’s administration more time to take the economy out of the mess created by the Buhari’s administration. On the other hand, the Tinubu’s administration needs to tell Nigerians how much has been saved by the Nigerian government through subsidy removal and how that money has been utilized. The administration needs to state their plan for the economy and carry Nigerians along with whatever their intentions are to avert a soon to come revolution” says the New York lawmaker.
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