Legislative lawyers, under the aegis of Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners, ALDRAP, have commenced moves to compel Nigerian senators to refund part of their salaries and allowances collected since 2023 over alleged poor performance.
A set of 40 senators are equally being asked to make total refund of salaries and allowances received during the period for concurrently holding membership of the Nigerian Senate and the ECOWAS and Pan-African parliaments, in violation of Nigeria’s laws.
The legislative lawyers, who have approached the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal as consumers dissatisfied with the services received from the senators, have forwarded a pre-action notice to the Senate, through the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio.
According to the procedure of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal, the respondent in a lawsuit is first served with a pre-action notice, before being summoned before the tribunal.
The pre-action notice was conveyed in a letter dated May 26, 2025, and signed by ALDRAP’s Administrative Secretary, Amuga Jesse Williams. The letter was obtained by DAILY POST on Tuesday.
The letter is titled, ‘Pre-action Notice: Demand made pursuant to the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission Act, 2018, for refund of 78% of the total salaries and allowances obtained by each of the 109 senators from May 2023 to May 2025 for 12% performance and delivery of their statutory duties to constituents (consumers) and refund of all salaries and allowances obtained by the 40 senators who abandoned their duties at the National Assembly to perform duties as legislators of the Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Pan-African Parliament, respectively, which is a violation of Section 68 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, which prohibits its senators from concurrent membership of the National Assembly and another legislature’.
The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chief Justice of Nigeria, Executive Vice-Chairman, Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, Accountant-General of the Federation, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Secretary-General of the ECOWAS Parliament, and Secretary-General of the Pan-African Parliament, were copied in the letter.
According to the legislative lawyers, available records show that the Senate has only performed its task at just 12 per cent since the 10th National Assembly took off in May 2023.
As a result, they want the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal to order the senators to return 78 percent of salaries and allowances collected from May 2023 to May 2025 to the national treasury, through the Accountant-General of the Federation, due to poor service delivery.
Parts of the letter read, “The Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners, ALDRAP, is a professional association of legislative lawyers who promote adherence to the provisions of the Nigerian Constitution by legislators and others within the legislative ecosystem. We use both public education and public interest litigation as methods to compel compliance.
“We have sworn to an affidavit of facts to support our statements in this letter. It is attached/enclosed. We are representatives of the constituents (consumers) of the legislative services provided by the 109 senators of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“Due to dissatisfaction with the legislative services provided by the said 109 senators, we, the constituents and consumers, write to make the following demands under the Federal Competition and Consumer