Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has said the current salaries of federal lawmakers cannot take them home to do the jobs they were elected to do. Kalu’s comments was made on Monday, as protests against economic hardship rock major cities across Nigeria, with many clamouring for cuts in governance costs. While stressing that the take home pay of the average lawmaker is a ‘far cry’ from what people insinuate, Kalu called for understanding, saying the call for the slashing of their salary by 50 percent is…
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