By Ola Ajayi

Ibadan—Former governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja has said Nigerians would appreciate it better if current political leaders in the country could cut their total monthly take-home package and not salaries alone.

Describing the cut in salaries of the political leaders as ‘mere window dressing’, Ladoja, who spoke at the weekend in Ibadan, said there were so many unknown bogus allowances not captured in the salary cuts.

President Muhammadu Buhari, and Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo and some governors had announced cut in their salaries into half as a result of the economic downturn in the country.

Ladoja said, “I see some of them as window dressing. If you say you cut the salaries of the National Assembly members, who knows how much they are earning? We only know what is written in the revenue allocation commission but we don’t know what their allowances are. So, if the allowances is N30 million and salary is N5 million and you say cut the salaries, what does that translate to?

“Unless they tell us their full package and say from the total package they are cutting it into half, cutting basic salaries into half, is a mere window dressing.”