Senator Shehu Sani’s exposé of the jumbo remunerations Nigerian senators award themselves is supposed to be a big thing but, honestly, it is nothing new. We have been through this before. In 2009, the defunct NEXT newspaper reported that lawmakers were not only being overpaid, they were also — and to use the mildest of language — thieves as well. In the same year, Prof. Olusola Adeyeye, (now a Senator but then a House of Representatives’ member) also gave a ground-shattering interview where he revealed that not only were lawmakers given an official licence to rob, they had virtually institutionalised means by which the money they parcelled out to themselves would evade accountability. Lawmakers’ mindless thieving from the public is, in short, legally sanctioned and constitutionally protected.
Two years later, the current Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, who was the then…
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