Former Member of the Senate of Nigeria, Ishaku Elisha Abbo has stated that he became improvised as a senator despite receiving #14.2m monthly and over N840million in the last 5 years.
Abbo while speaking in a monitored interview on AriseTV stated that he would have preferred to continued his business enterprise but join politics because of his love for humanity which made him poorer as a senator.
According to Abbo, the N14.2m earned monthly was absolutely nothing considering the demands and challenges faced by his constituents on a daily basis.
“Let me say this on live television, am poorer, much more poorer as a man when I became a politician than when I was in business but I didn’t resign because I enjoyed serving the people,
“Go to my village and check, as a senator,I live in room and parlor I don’t have a house of my own, I was building a 23-bedroom mansion before I became a senator in the heart of mubi, when I became a senator I stopped it and took over people’s burden,”
Meanwhile, Abbo noted that governance has been taken far away from the people and that is where local government administration have to come to the fore adding that before now, local government chairmen were given money to do projects but today, the governors has hijacked the local government funds through Joint Account (JAC)
He however advocated that the National Assembly should create a fund in the office of our legislators who are the representative of the people to take care of constituency projects so that it will not be added to their salary.
