The House of Representatives has accepted to slash their six months salaries by 50%.
This comes after an adoption of an amendment to a motion’s prayer moved by the Deputy Speaker of the House, Benjamin Okezie Kalu, on the need for lawmakers to sacrifice 50% of their N600,000 monthly salaries to support Nigerians given the hardship in the country.
Okezie’s amended prayer was to a motion moved by Ibrahim Isiaka from Ogun State appealing to proponents of the planned nationwide protests to abandon the idea and engage the government in dialogue.
According to the Deputy speaker, the slashed salary is to support the federal government’s effort in addressing the rise cost of food in the country with the view to ameliorating the hardship Nigerians are going through.
The lawmakers pleaded with Nigerians to exercise more patience with President Ahmed Tinubu’s led administration in addressing challenges and hardships faced by citizens.
The motion was adopted and referred to the committees on Humanitarian Affairs, Finance and Budget for compliance.
