Obasanjo slams lawmakers over ‘unconstitutional’, ‘immoral’ allowances

This was said by Obasanjo during a speech he gave on Monday during the 60th-anniversary celebration of the call to the bar of legal legend Aare Afe Babalola in Ado, Ekiti.

The former president expressed worry, saying those who should uphold the constitution are “the ones who undermine it.”

Obasanjo claimed that the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), which he claimed the lawmakers had disbanded in order to set their own pay, was in charge of allocating salaries for elected officials.JAMB Result

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In accordance with paragraphs 32(a-e) of Part I of the Third Schedule of the 1999 Constitution (as modified), the commission is tasked with deciding on the appropriate compensation for those who hold political office, including parliamentarians.

One time President said: “The point in Nigeria which I have seen and which I can attest to is most of the people who are supposed to be operationalising or managing and seeing the constitution and democracy move forward, they are actually the ones who undermine the constitution.

“All elected people, by our constitution, their emolument is supposed to be fixed by the revenue mobilisation commission, but our lawmakers set that aside and they make laws and put any emolument for themselves.

“Even if that is constitutional, it is not moral and, of course, it is neither constitutional nor moral.”

The Federal Character, for example, was “absolutely ignored,” according to Obasanjo, who also claimed that the Federal Character Commission hardly performed its duties.NYSC Portal

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