There are very few jobs that guarantee a salary increase and several bumps in allowance, regardless of job performance.
Being a Nigerian legislator is one.
A national paper has the details: Legislators get jumbo salaries . Excerpts:
By the new increase which was backdated to last year, the annual basic salaries of legislators at the Federal, State and Local Government levels have gone up by more than 100 per cent…
Also, the benefits and allowance for accommodation have been increased between 45 per cent and 200 per cent of their basic annual salary…
This is a job that comes with wardrobe allowance!
Also increased are: personal assistant, 25 per cent, wardrobe, 25 per cent, domestic staff, 75 per cent, recess allowance, 10 per cent, newspapers, 15 per cent and constituency allowance which is graded between 15 per cent and 250 per cent for legislators at Local Government, States and Federal Government levels.
I would have no qualms if those law makers are the true representatives of the people. But they are not.
What is a constituency allowance by the way? Is this money ‘doing what it’s suppose to do?’ It will be good if Nigerians journalists can tell us!
Hello,
I find it outrageous that the lawmakers can be thinking of a salary raise when most workers are languishing with unpaid salaries for months if not years.
Like I said in my blog Plight of unpaid but working Nigerians, I had already said the legislators were patently unconcerned.
How, I also advocate an ombudsman system that mandates businesses employ only those they can pay for or change their business model.
It is not that we need a socialist worker’s model to protect workers, but we do need a responsibility and integrity pact that defines in clear legal and sanction terms the relationship between the employer and the employee whilst safe-guarding the rights of the employee when the emplyer defaults.
Regards,
Akin
August 19, 2008 at 11:41 pm
yet teachers are on strike and children are sitting at home instead of in classrooms. how typical.
August 21, 2008 at 10:22 am
One allowance is clearly missing and this is the most important of all:
BURIAL ALLOWANCE
Hope this is given a 200% raise.
August 21, 2008 at 1:48 pm