I just read a Daily post article that our lawmakers are about to embark on another 6-weeks recess. I find it very bad. There are a lot to be done and these politicians in both chambers are among the top earners in the world. Even if we can't get them to cut down on their salaries and bonuses, at least they should get busy and work.

I therefore move the motions to propose:
1. That our lawmakers in Nigeria should be paid for only the days of sitting in the chambers for deliberations.
2. Those that are absent should not be paid as well (unless they got a written absentee letter signed by the leadership).
3. That this will apply to both the Senate and House of Reps.
4. All the major bonuses should also be paid on per sitting bases as well.
5. The days of weekend (Saturday and Sunday) should attract half pay to all members (whether there is any official assignment or none in those Saturdays and Sundays.
6. Any further modification of the Salaries of our Lawmakers should be subjected to public review. Because they are representing us, we should have a say on what they should be paid.

What do you think and what further recommendations can you add?

cc: lalasticlala, Ishilove - FP we need more considerations.

egift:
I just read a Daily post article that our lawmakers are about to embark on another 6-weeks recess. I find it very bad. There are a lot to be done and these politicians in both chambers are among the top earners in the world. Even if we can't get them to cut down on their salaries and bonuses, at least they should get busy and work.

I therefore move the motions to propose:
1. That our lawmakers in Nigeria should be paid for only the days of sitting in the chambers for deliberations.
2. Those that are absent should not be paid as well (unless they got a written absentee letter signed by the leadership).
3. That this will apply to both the Senate and House of Reps.
4. All the major bonuses should also be paid on per sitting bases as well.
5. The days of weekend (Saturday and Sunday) should attract half pay to all members (whether there is any official assignment or none in those Saturdays and Sundays.
6. Any further modification of the Salaries of our Lawmakers should be subjected to public review. Because they are representing us, we should have a say on what they should be paid.

What do you think and what further recommendations can you add?

cc: lalasticlala, Ishilove - FP we need more considerations.

Supported...

Ok.

Firefire:


Supported...

Thanks, Oga - Boss!

I'm In support of this...

egift:
I just read a Daily post article that our lawmakers are about to embark on another 6-weeks recess. I find it very bad. There are a lot to be done and these politicians in both chambers are among the top earners in the world. Even if we can't get them to cut down on their salaries and bonuses, at least they should get busy and work.

I therefore move the motions to propose:
1. That our lawmakers in Nigeria should be paid for only the days of sitting in the chambers for deliberations.
2. Those that are absent should not be paid as well (unless they got a written absentee letter signed by the leadership).
3. That this will apply to both the Senate and House of Reps.
4. All the major bonuses should also be paid on per sitting bases as well.
5. The days of weekend (Saturday and Sunday) should attract half pay to all members (whether there is any official assignment or none in those Saturdays and Sundays.
6. Any further modification of the Salaries of our Lawmakers should be subjected to public review. Because they are representing us, we should have a say on what they should be paid.

What do you think and what further recommendations can you add?

cc: lalasticlala, Ishilove - FP we need more considerations.

Lalasticlala... Happy Sunday.

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I support you.

They can start by using the current Salary Scheme as a Template. Split their current Monthly salary and bounces into 30 (representing a month). Any day they sit for deliberation, they earn the income of that day.

And whenever they go for recess, then No Pay until they reconvene!

[size=15pt]Part-time Practice In US, UK [/size]

A Nigerian, Paul Ojenagbon, in a report in 2011 submitted that part-time legislation can be practiced conveniently and effectively at both national and state levels. At state level, the United States is under three categories of legislature – Red, White and Blue legislatures.

The Red legislatures require the “most time” of legislators, usually 80 per cent of a full time job. The legislators keep large staff of an average of 8.9 persons per legislator. Legislative sessions in the Red legislature are also longer and as a result, they are compensated at a higher rate of $68,599 (approximately N10, 632,845) per annum.

America’s most populous states run this model, including California, Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania The report states in part: Legislatures in the White . are hybrids. They spend more than two-thirds of a full-time job being legislators. Legislators under this . have intermediate sized staff averaging 3.1 persons.

They devote about 70 percent of full time to the job and are compensated $35,326 (approximately N5, 475, 5300) per annum. Blue legislators are lawmakers who spend the equivalent of half of a full-time job doing legislative work. They receive low compensation and so they are required to have other sources of income in order to make a living.

Their offices are run with lowest staffing ratio of 1.2 persons per legislator. Blue legislators devote about 54 percent of the time on the job and are compensated at the rate of $15,984 (approximately N2, 477,520) per annum. This type of legislature can be found in the lesser populated states. In the United Kingdom, the current annual salary for a Member of Parliament (MP) is £65,738 (approximately N16, 434,500) in addition to minimal allowances to cover costs of running an office and employing staff. Legislators can also be remunerated on “per sitting” basis so that the delinquent ones would have to sit tight or lose out on remuneration.

The equivalent is the per diem (daily payment) per session that was practiced in the US between 1789 and 1855 before it became an annual salary that we adopted, but which our legislators have not largely justified.

A notable observation from this model is while Nigerian legislators are full-time (Red) in principle or on the paper, in reality, virtually all the legislators are in the Blue but collecting remuneration for full-time session.

http://www.scoop.ng/2015/06/cost-of-governance-mulling-a-part-time-or-uni-cameral-legislature.html/

[size=15pt]Uni-cameral legislature [/size]

The principal advantage of a unicameral system is more efficient law-making, as the legislative process is much simpler and there is no possibility of legislative deadlock.

For example, the immediate past 7th National Assembly failed to pass the controversial Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), a re-occurring development that has greeted past assemblies which have failed to pass the bill since its introduction in 2008.

Even though the House of Representatives passed the PIB, at the Senate, legislative work on the Bill stopped at committee level. Proponents of uni-cameralism have also argued that it reduces costs, as even if the number of legislators is the same as it would be in a multi-cameral system, there are fewer institutions to maintain and support.

Approximately half of the world’s sovereign states are presently uni-cameral, including both the most populous (the People’s Republic of China) and the least populous (the Vatican City).

In the United Kingdom, the devolved Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly are also uni-cameral.

http://www.scoop.ng/2015/06/cost-of-governance-mulling-a-part-time-or-uni-cameral-legislature.html/

egift:

Thanks, Oga - Boss!

Before I support you, promise you won't do cheat again......

who will pass the bill na

u don't expect me to put sand into my garri.

wish like minds fight for it the way they are fighting coooorrrrruuuuppppptttttiiiiiooooonnnnn

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coolestrogue:

Before I support you, promise you won't do cheat again......

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NEXT!

ricsman:
who will pass the bill na

u don't expect me to put sand into my garri.

wish like minds fight for it the way they are fighting coooorrrrruuuuppppptttttiiiiiooooonnnnn

I will really like to see this amendment. I will really boost our democratic experience.

Supported....


@simeonii_1

Every Nigerian, except of course, the so-called lawmakers, will support this. That's how it was during the botched 3rd republic.
This approach is very cost-effective owing to the fact that our present crop of legislators earn to much for the little, and sometimes, insignificant work they do.

I CONCUR
OUR SOLDIERS WORK 24/7 FACING DEATH AND THE DONT GET 1/3 OF WHAT THESE GUYS GET

Great idea. This will go a long way in curbing their laziness and also take care of corruption to a reasonable extent.

But the truth is, over the dead body of our lawmakers will this noble idea see the light of day.

Ola17:
Great idea. This will go a long way in curbing their laziness and also take care of corruption to a reasonable extent.

But the truth is, over the dead body of our lawmakers will this noble idea see the light of day.

Our democratic experience will be top notch if we can get this through.

coolestrogue:

Before I support you, promise you won't do cheat again......

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