Senate President Ahmad Lawan reveals how much lawmakers earn, says national assembly will pass proposed 2022 budget this week

Senate President has said that the national Assembly will pass the proposed 2022 budget before the end of the legislative week.

Lawan disclosed this while giving a lecture at the maiden Distinguished Parliamentarians Lecture Series organised by the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) on Monday December 13. He said that the current National Assembly has made it a practice for the budget to be presented and passed before the end of December yearly, to ensure that it is implemented in January.

Lawan noted that the National Assembly has been grossly underfunded in the last four years, the senate president stated that the percentage of the National Assembly budget in the federal budget ranged between 1.44 per cent in 2019 to 0.82 per cent in 2021. He also said that the total salary of a member of the Senate was about N1.5 million and that of the House of Representatives is about N1.3 million.