In the light of the deregulation of the minimum wage being proposed by the Council of state, it is my own humble suggestion that this should be extended to lawmakers nationwide.

Lawmakers should be paid by the states they represent and these states should fix the wages of these lawmakers, while state lawmakers should be paid by their LGAs and the LGAs should determine what they can pay their representatives.

It just doesnt make sense for an employee to determine his salary and approve, yes they can make requests to the approving authority which for the national lawmakers would be their state houses of Assembly, while the state would be their local govt council, but the people in those houses would now justify the pay.

A scenario where a lawmaker absents himself from session without any due clearance and tenable excuse will have his salary withdrawn or suspended.

This would make lawmakers inthe country to sit tight and do their jobs more efficiently and if their salary scale is placed inthe nations Civil service case it would help Labour because what ever labour is able to achieve would have to impact on their pay.

This humble contribution is open to ideas and suggestions on how to push this, maybe if we can truly have a SNG this should be the kind of issues to be discussed instead of breaking the nation along ethnic lines.

The revenue mobilization allocation and fiscal commission (RMAFC) determines what federal lawmakers should get and approves legislators salaries!! not the lawmakers themselves.

How can states pay Federal lawmakers?

I think the legislators' allowances should be based on the country's GDP

I feel the lawmakers and political office holders are civil servants. As such they should be paid glorified civil servant salaries and allowances, something in the neighbourhood of 20% above civil servants salaries and allowances of their cadre.

I can't understand their swearing with the fattest bible and quoran to serve the masses, only to turn around and syphon our resources for personal gains.

NLC should take note of this for further agitations for salaries and wages should the govt remain silent over the jumbo salaries of the lawmakers.

gadogado:

The revenue mobilization allocation and fiscal commission (RMAFC) determines what federal lawmakers should get and approves legislators salaries!! not the lawmakers themselves.

Then the commissioners are on the payroll of corrupt politicians (the lawmakers). This is why what the first poster said (the people determining their salary) might be a better alternative.

The RMAFC was not set up only for political office holders but for the nation.

The Federal legislators are ot employees of the Federal government in the real sense of it, but are representatives of districts within a state, and in the real context represent the aspirations of their people with relation to the nation, this implies that when push comes to shove they are supposed to represent their communities in determination of equity.

The reason for bringing up this topic is to check the excesses of these senators who seem to want make themselves the law of the land, there is need for cdhecks and balances in our system.

Who do senators actually report to, they are just a waste of the nations resources, they put the ptrsifrny in check but I dont see anyone putting them in check

If the nation also can not guarantee minimum wage for all workers in the country,, can not guarantee uniform pay for all lecturers in the country, cannot pay doctors a uniform rate in the country, then what justification do we have for paying them so much uniformly.

What does a senator from zamfara wants to do with the same allowances as a senator from Lagos, houses are meant to be cheaper in his own state where he represents and where his family is supposed to be domiciled should have food cheaper, while a senator in lagos would have to pay higher to acquire the same status of house in lagos and food for his family more expensive, so his pay should be higher.

Also senators should be placed on a civil service scale for their respective states such that when ever there is a payrise in workers salary thats the only time they would also experience increase this would give them a stake in labour agitations.

Instead of Labour to keep agitating for improved welfare package they should mobilize Nigerians to demand that elected representatives be placed on the civil service scale.