Ali Ndume's Revelation: Full List of Senators Who Got More Than N200m From 2024 Budget

 Bada Yusuf Ali Ndume, the Senate Chief Chip, has disclosed that the constituency projects allocation for their senatorial district, which the ranking senators get, is higher than the ones the floor members get in the national assembly. 


The high-ranking senator made the revelation while reacting to the allegations by his colleagues, Jarigbe Agom-Jarigbe, the senator representing the Cross River North senatorial district, who alleged that some senators got about N500 million each for constituency projects in the 2024 budget.

Agom-Jarigbe made the allegation on the floor of the Senate when the upper chamber debated the budget padding allegation by the suspended Senator Abdul Ahmed Ningi, the former chairman of the northern senators' forum. 

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In his response to the allegation of Senator Agom-Jarigbe, Ndume, in an interview on Wednesday, March 13, on Channels Television, disclosed that each of the Senators got N200 million each for their constituency projects, and the ranking senators got more than that. 

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