Senators, reps tackle FG over N300m palliatives for lawmakers

Senators, reps tackle FG over N300m palliatives for lawmakers 

 

• FG Gave N300m palliatives to lawmakers -Tinubu aide

• We’re yet to get anything -Senators
• We only received rice – Reps

 

The Federal Government says it has distributed palliative items worth N200 million and N100 million to senators and members of the House of Representatives respectively.

But the Senate denied claims that each of its members had received the FG’s palliative items for their constituents.

Olusegun Dada, the special assistant on social media to President Bola Tinubu on his official X handle on Thursday, confirmed the distribution of palliative items worth N200 million to senators and palliative items worth N100 million to House of Representatives members.

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Yemi Adaramodu, said he had yet to receive any palliative items from the Federal Government.

The House of Representatives however said members received rice from the government as part of a nationwide palliative effort, not N100 million as claimed in a recent viral video.

The chairman of the House committee on media and publicity, Akin Rotimi, made the clarification in a statement on Friday, January 5, in Abuja.

The Reps member further said the procurement process is at different stages, depending on the constituency, but to be clear, no legislator has been given any money for palliatives.