Honourable Saheed Akinade Fijabi, representing Ibadan North/ South West in the National House of Representative said he earns well over 500,000 naira

He said this during a media interaction with South West Group of Online Publishers on Tuesday.

According to Fijabi, the Speaker of house of representative, Yakubu Dogara might be earning less as a result of some deductibles

Meanwhile another member of the House of Representatives, Mr Zakari Mohammed, has said member of the National Assembly are not the highest paid political office holders in Nigeria.

Mohammed, who represents Baruten/Kaiama Federal Constituency, denied that legislators’ pay was a guarded secret.

“The public perception of the National Assembly is in sharp contrast to the reality on the ground as far as the lawmakers take-home and other allowances are concerned,” he disclosed on Thursday in Gure, Baruten Local Government Area of Kwara.

According to him, chief executives of federal agencies earn more salary than the National Assembly members.Meanwhile, Zakari Mohammed argued “I can tell you that a Director-General of a Federal agency is far and above better than a member of parliament in terms of what he takes home in terms of pegs of office.

“Whatever a legislature does is within the limit of his allowances and the salary that he takes.

“Whatever we do is within the income, we don’t award contracts, we don’t execute projects.”

Mohammed, however, advocated regular interface between the National Assembly and the public to address current erroneous perception.

“So for me, I believe it is a mind-set and it is going to take sometimes to get it off Nigerians heads, and I believe a regular interface with the public will change the psyche with time.”