Nigeria: Court Asked to Make Senators Refund N13.5m Monthly Allowance

25 April 2018

Lagos — A Federal High Court in Lagos has been asked to order Senate President Bukola Saraki and 108 other senators to refund the N13.5 monthly allowance each of them allegedly receives.

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) also wants the sums returned with interest and the senators barred from ever being paid such 'unjustified allowances.'

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