{"id":59209,"date":"2018-11-07T07:50:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T06:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=59209"},"modified":"2018-11-07T07:51:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T06:51:33","slug":"serap-calls-out-saraki-over-alleged-plan-to-increase-senators-allowance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=59209","title":{"rendered":"SERAP calls out Saraki over alleged plan to increase Senators allowance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1528311562_7491df53-saraki.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has raised the alarm over alleged plans by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki to increase salaries of Nigerian senators.<\/p>\n<p>SERAP in a terse statement on Tuesday on its verified Twitter page disclosed that Saraki plans to increase monthly allowance per senator to N15m which is contrary to the Salaries Act.<\/p>\n<p>SERAP, however, urged the Senate president to suspend the alleged plans and put into consideration the needs of Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads: \u201cDear Bukola Saraki, your alleged decision to increase monthly allowance per senator to N15m is contrary to the Salaries Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigerians ask you to suspend the allowances until our suit on the matter is determined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere isn\u2019t one law for lawmakers and one for the rest of the people.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has raised the alarm over alleged plans by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki to increase salaries of Nigerian senators. SERAP in a terse statement on Tuesday on its verified Twitter page disclosed that Saraki plans to increase monthly allowance per senator to N15m which is contrary to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1190,503,351],"class_list":["post-59209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-bukola-saraki","tag-national-assembly","tag-senate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}