The floor of the senate turned rowdy on Tuesday afternoon when Senator Jarigbe Jarigbe (PDP, Cross-River North) revealed that all ranking senators got the sum of N500m.
Jarigbe made the revelation during during the debate of the motion on breach of privilege moved by Senator Olamilekan Adeola.
Senator Adeola had come under orders 9, 10, 41, and 51 to move a motion of privilege and issue of National importance against Senator Abdul Ningi over his interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation (Hausa Services).
Senator Ningi had alleged that the senate is operating two different budgets nothing that over N3trn unexplained funds was in the 2024 budget.
But Jarigbe stated that the missing N3.7tn, as alleged by Senator Abdul Ningi (PDP, Bauchi Central), had been clarified under the Government Owned Enterprises and first line charge.
He said, “I thought this issue should have ended when the chairman of Committee on Appropriation, explained that the N3.7tn were under GOEs and the first line charge.
“That explains everything but if we want to express our grouse, I also have mine and we are all culpable. After all, all the ranking senators got N500m each. I am a ranking senator and I didn’t get.”
Having disclosed this, the Senate was thrown into a rowdy session.
