Saraki donates severance package to Leah Sharibu’s family, others
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President of the 8th Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has directed
that the National Assembly Management should distribute his Severance
Allowance to families of three victims of the insurgency in the
North-East,
This is even as he also directed that children of late senators be also included in the list of beneficiaries.
In a statement signed by his Special Adviser (Media and Publicity),
Yusuph Olaniyonu, Saraki stated that the Severance Allowance should be
used to support the families of Leah Sharibu, who is being held by Boko
Haram.
He said that part of the money should also be donated to the families
of two humanitarian workers abducted and subsequently murdered by Boko
Haram insurgents – Hussaini Ahmed Khoisan and Hauwa Liman.
Also to benefit from the money are children of late members of the
Eight Senate who may require financial assistance in furtherance of
their education as a Trust Fund is to be established by the management
of the National Assembly for the purpose.
He stated that his decision to use the severance package to support
the selected victims of the insurgency was based on the fact that their
cases represented some of the most touching humanitarian issues debated
at the plenary during the four-years of the Eighth Senate and on which
his colleagues and himself made emotional and passionate speeches.
According to him, 20 per cent of the severance allowance is to be
donated to the family of Leah Sharibu while 20 percent is also to be
paid to the family of Hauwa Liman, the aid worker brutally murdered by
Boko Haram after she was captured.
Another 20 percent is to be donated to the family of the second aid
worker, Hussaini Ahmed Khoisan, also murdered in the same circumstance
by Boko Haram.
The remaining 40 percent should be used by the National Assembly
Management to set up a TRUST FUND that will assist children of deceased
members of the Eighth Senate who are in financial need for their
education.
“It is my hope that this TRUST FUND should grow with more
contributions from my dear colleagues, present, past and future, who may
be moved to put in additional money into it.
“The Clerk of the National Assembly will immediately get an official
letter from me mandating him to act as stated above on the disbursement
of my Severance Allowance”, Saraki added.
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