Court Orders Release Of Information On Legislators’ Salaries And Allowances From 2007 To 2011

Jonathan has signed a bill to free yourself from the strangulation of government and yet Nigerians are still in bondage. The information bill is now used to harass Jonathan and Jonathan only. We behave as if we have only one government in Nigeria. The kind of abuses directed to Jonathan if we target our governors and the state governors boys they called LGA chairman, Nigeria will be a better place.Why must it be only the president that they want to see his asset declaration and for what purpose? We like jumping up and down for nothing any little thing we head to court, that is why the court are slow to prosecute important cases. How do you expect our court to fast track criminal cases when cases instituted against a husband for eating two meats instead of one are still pending in our courts.

Nigerians are very dumb sha, we need to make life unbearable for these theives we call leaders from Pres Jonathan to the thieves in the national assembly, if only boko haram could do the right thing by doing a targetted assasination of this thieves we call ruling class, nigerians are been taking for a joke all over the world because of this unpatriotic people ruling our country,light No,roads No,security No, health-care No, all they do is lie and lie and the dumb citizens could not go out there and demand for their rights, when other people do,  they call them opposition like they are not nigerians. Thieves making law for us, one law for them another for us. Yet we keep mute like bunch of idiots, steal a loaf of bread and get 10yrs while they still  N billions and walk freely i wonder where vincent Ogbulafor(former pdp chairman) is at the minute?

This is a landmark ruling. The judiciary is now in charge given voice to voiceless and enforcing the state law as passed by NASS. It is only in Nigeria that legislators salaries are secret. The governor of Central Bank said we spend a quarter of our budget on salary and emolument of the legislator. It is time we let public know how much each is making. Every kobo that is in excess of the legislative salary should be refund with interest accrue.

Law makers making laws dat binds only d poor in 9jiria.4get it,its business as usual.dos NGO's need some cash.i bet u,if dey collect their own share;case close!

This is the right time to push for impeachment of president jonathan, a president who can not honor the constitution.

Let wait and see what the un-honorable member of the house we do after listen to their president.

Victims of north violence are now refugees in their country. Nigeria's government needs to resettle those victims before it becomes too late. We can no longer have a situation where people willingly kill their so-called co-nationals, damage their investments, send them down south as refugees, and at the end, what government does is beg the killers to stop killing. In what normal country can thousands be refugees in their own country? Time was when students destroyed university properties at any whim. But since the authorities started making them pay for those destroyed properties, incidents of students destroying properties got attenuated. Government must make way for federal allocations of destructive states be deducted at source to pay for deaths and damages caused. Enough is enough!

The President answered that question yesterday in his media chat. If the law requires that he MUST declare that he should but I don't think if that is the case. Go to court if he's going against the law.

By the way, it is not the assets of the NASS that the case was brought before the court but the salary etc.
The President's is salary is a public knowledge.

yinka ve been known 4 polictical miscalculation. as spokes man 2 buhari. after cross checking his statement .one doesnt need a sooth sayer tell u dat yinka looked 4job like reuben abati and was un4tunate 2join cpc non moving train. thx 4 GOd 4d transformation of abati railway line. now dat he is hiding under his wife to make statement in oda to update her profile. iam uncomfortable wt dat idea. dat woman ve suffered 2build dat profile. still on flash back. under yinka micro phone buhari 4got dat we r in democracy. yinka shd go and join kennis record bcos dat is what left of him now.d sand wey u pour 4 GEj garri don turn to fertilizer.cheap recognition is now analogue. rethink

It would be interesting to know if these so called dis(honorables) will obey the court other. I believe to enlongate the case they will appeal to the supreme court. Watch out. Next is the executive. Jonathan has said he does not give a darm about declaring his assets so let see where it goes from here. Kudos to the plaintiffs, LEDAP.

Jonathan should be sued to court now, for failing to declare his assets and others too. These people are riding Nigerians like a donkeys. And hes still boasting, that he doesnt give damn. This is insult to Nigerians. Then why do we have constitution? Where all our so call activists? we can not continue tobe quiet like dummy. They are raping us blind. Nigerians wake up, wake up and lets fight for right. They are all rogues and Armed Robbers, who call them self our leaders. Jonathan you are a looter ooooo. Ole, Ole, Ole, Barawo Bansa, Proffesor of lies.

I think Nigerians from all works of life should throw their weight behind LEDAP and this suit because if this case is pursued and won...it will have a huge future impact when it comes to Nigeria's public officials and their arrogance.....This is the only way they will know NOBOBY, ABSOLUTELY NOBODY is above the law. Good job LEDAP......These rogue legislators must vomit all that National cake wey them don chop.....Yeye and irresponsible lawmakers. Una go know say no be everything wey dey sweet dey good to chop because Diabetes dey wait una for corner...The creme of the thieving crop.Oleeeee lawmakers.

The release of such information will be an embarassement to Nigerians, as we know they have fat pay cheques they do not deserve, never worked for or earned. A professor in Nigeria cannot earn half the allowances these illiterate reps are recieving, which is unfortunate. There is a need for the constitution to equalize salaries based on one's educational qualification. After all, legistlators are civil servants, why should they earn higher than others?Some state legistlators do not even have formal education talk less of a diploma or degree. They sit in the house sleeping, and raising their hands when others do in the case of voting yes or nay, and those kind of people earn more than a professor, doctors, nurses, teachers, construction workers, plumbers etc? What a lost country.

Jonathan's assets are not public records so FOI Act does not apply. Jona haters should know that previous presidents refused to sign this act into law until Jona did. This is one of the many things he has done but a lot of people only think that roads and electricity are our only problem and if these are not fixed the government is not working

This judgement is a victory for democracy but bad news to the poor struggling citizens who form the bulk of the population. We all know that our law makers are the law breakers; they are above the law and accountable to none. Showing us details of their salaries, emoluments and other entitlements is good for the system but does the poor masses no good. It's more like adding salt to injury. We are better off not knowing their take home pay than knowing, knowning fully well that they won't make a refund neither do we have the power to stop them or change the system. If the GEJ does not give a damn to declare his assets, no member of his cabinets will give a damn to fight corruption

This is a welcome move by the Federal High Court. Nobody really knows how much our Legislators make -their salaries, emoluments, allowances including Constituents allowances. What about BRIBERY on every single law, projects and approval they give. Nigeria’s House is filled with bunch of thieves!

The greedy legislators will be restlessly working to stop the public from knowing how thier money was expended.
The judiciary should remove themselves from any conspiracy to sabotage our constitutional rights.The above judgement is welcome and Kudos to the Judge.

You can trust the idiots rushing to appeal the ruling. I do not know why the NASS has not reverted tp their earlier emoluments before 2007. I don't understand the type of constitution that allows the NASS to fix their own salaries and allowances. It is unacceptable. If they think their pre-2007 emoluments are not sufficient, they should look for work elsewhere.

I wish the court could give Jonathan 14 days to make public his worth. If the FOI ACT is for everyone, Jonathan should make his assets public before he is forced to do so. That is, if the laws is applicable to all. 

They should also tell Jonathan and the office concerned to release president Jonathan's asset declaration documents for the public to see. There actually seems to be a brewing war between the National Assembly and the excutive. The executive is out to expose the senators more so House of Rep. 

This is what I have been saying instead of a revolution on the streets that'll be bloody and probably not achieve anything, a legal revolution would see our rulers been made top adhere albeit grudgingly to the rule of law as it should be. Thanks LEDAP, n I implore others that can exploit the legal system to force the desired change we need in nigeria to pls stand up. Class action suits et al, is what we need.

This is a good step on the right direction 4rm d Judiciay
Thumbs up 2 d Judiciary.

Unbelievable!
At last.Something positive to cheer about.
Though belated