Saraki Donates Severance Allowance To Leah Sharibu’s Family, Others

Senate President Bukola Saraki has directed the National Assembly
Management to distribute his severance allowance to the families of Leah
Sharibu and two other aid workers killed by Boko Haram terrorists.
He also instructed children of late Senators in need of financial assistance
should benefit from the allowance.
In a statement by his Special Adviser (Media and Publicity), Yusuph Olaniyonu,
Saraki stated the families of Hussaini Ahmed Khoisan and Hauwa Liman, the
two murdered aid workers by Boko Haram should also be included.
In the case of the late senators’ children, Saraki directed a Trust Fund should
be established by management of the National Assembly for those who may
require financial assistance in furtherance of their education.
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 percent 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.
According to him: “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.

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