Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Burkina Faso lawmakers give themselves 50-percent pay cut - Yahoo News

Burkina Faso lawmakers give themselves 50-percent pay cut - Yahoo News: "Ouagadougou (AFP) - Lawmakers in Burkina Faso gave themselves a 50-percent pay cut Tuesday, following a public outcry over the "indecent" wages enjoyed by members of the country's interim assembly.

The 90 members of the National Transitional Council, which has governed the west African state since the overthrow of longtime president Blaise Compaore in a popular uprising in October, said they had decided to renounce a top-up payment that doubled their monthly salary of 880,000 CFA (1,340 euros, $1,580).

"We don't want to profit from the revolution. We commit to not betray the memory and sense of sacrifice of our martyrs," the vice-president of the council Honore Nombre said."



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