Nigerians have been tweeting #UndressNASS this week, after local media reports about the clothing allowance for the 469 elected members of the National Assembly, the country’s parliament.

Local media reports had said the annual grant was over $100,000 per person in some cases, but Nigeria's Senate leader knocked that down, saying the true figure was $2,500.

The Nigerian newspaper This Day reported on Tuesday that the country's lawmakers were set to get 8.64 billion Naira ($43 million) as a wardrobe allowance, which would be broken down into a $108,000 yearly grant for each upper house senator and $88,000 for each lower house lawmaker.

After a national outcry, Senate leader Bukola Saraki tweeted that the correct amount for senators was a mere fraction of that. But many people remain angry that the government would allocate any money for this at all.

The debate has Nigerians particularly fired up because they voted in President Muhammadu Buhari, an ascetic former military dictator, earlier this year in a historic election. Buhari, who took office at the end of May, won on his vows to stamp out the country's huge problem with corruption – and, for many Nigerians, this includes even legalized splurges by politicians.