An average senator in Nigeria earns over ₦30 million per month and only goes to work about 10 times in a month. Sometimes, they don’t even show up at all. But they take home in one month the salary of a worker who has worked for 35 years.

An average worker cannot afford to eat, cannot afford to buy medicine, or send their children to school, yet they work every day.

The greatest work on our hands now is to drive away the enemies of workers who are occupying positions of power in this country…”

Human right activist Omoyele Sowore criticises Nigeria’s pay system, saying lawmakers earn far more than workers while ordinary citizens struggle with basic needs.