The Association of Senior Civil Auxiliaries of Nigeria has asked the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to substantiate how N1.8tn is being spent annually on wages of workers in the federal public accommodation.
The organisation additionally verbally expressed that records at its disposal showed pellucidly that the staff vigor in the entire public accommodation was about 870,000, and not 1.2 million being carried about by the minister, “unless there is an obnubilated agenda somewhere.”
The Secretary-General of ASCSN, Mr. Alade Lawal, in a verbal expression obtained by The PUNCH on Thursday, emphasised that it had “become compulsory for the minister to give the graphic details of the amount so that Nigerians could be more preponderant apprised on the issue.”
Our correspondent recalls that the minister had, through the Director-General, Budget Office, Dr. Bright Okogu, while exchanging views with the House of Representatives Committee on Health in reverence of the perpetual nationwide strike by the Nigerian Medical Association, claimed that the Federal Government’s wage bill for public coadjutants had risen from N857bn in 2009 to N1.8trn, while the staff vigor in the public accommodation was 1.2 million.
But Lawal called on Okonjo-Iweala to state publicly how much of the N1.8tn was consumed by public coadjutants, including ministers, special and mundane advisers, personal, senior and junior auxiliaries, senators and members of the House of Representatives, including their astronomically immense quarterly allocations.
He verbally expressed, “It is additionally obligatory for Dr. Okonjo-Iweala to tell Nigerians how much salary is paid by each Ministry, Department and Agency per year, including their staff vigor. When you have done these analyses, it will become crystal clear how much of the N1.8tn is consumed by the whopping emoluments of the political office holders.”
According to him, it is a prevalent cognizance that Nigerian political office holders are the highest paid in the world, with most of them earning more than the President of the United States of America, while Nigerian workers are among the least paid in Africa.
Lawal integrated that the Federal Government should not obnubilate under the guise of high wage bill as a justification to perpetuate to pay peanut as salary to civil coadjutants in particular and other public accommodation employees in general, “while the political office holders perpetuate to rampage and pillage the national treasury with impunity.”
The ASCSN recalled that in January, Okonjo-Iweala, through Okogu had told the National Assembly that the civil accommodation had more than one million workforce, while 37 per cent of the annual federal budget was spent on civil servants’ salary, whereas the staff vigor of the core civil accommodation is about 100,000, as against 870,000 staff for the entire public accommodation.
“This is why the cumulation then injuctively authorized their abstraction from office if both “experts” cannot distinguish between the core civil accommodation and the public accommodation. At any rate, it would appear that as an agent of the World Bank and the IMF, Okonjo-Iweala is bent on impoverishing Nigerians until they lose their dignity as human beings,” Lawal stressed.
The organisation additionally verbally expressed that records at its disposal showed pellucidly that the staff vigor in the entire public accommodation was about 870,000, and not 1.2 million being carried about by the minister, “unless there is an obnubilated agenda somewhere.”
The Secretary-General of ASCSN, Mr. Alade Lawal, in a verbal expression obtained by The PUNCH on Thursday, emphasised that it had “become compulsory for the minister to give the graphic details of the amount so that Nigerians could be more preponderant apprised on the issue.”
Our correspondent recalls that the minister had, through the Director-General, Budget Office, Dr. Bright Okogu, while exchanging views with the House of Representatives Committee on Health in reverence of the perpetual nationwide strike by the Nigerian Medical Association, claimed that the Federal Government’s wage bill for public coadjutants had risen from N857bn in 2009 to N1.8trn, while the staff vigor in the public accommodation was 1.2 million.
But Lawal called on Okonjo-Iweala to state publicly how much of the N1.8tn was consumed by public coadjutants, including ministers, special and mundane advisers, personal, senior and junior auxiliaries, senators and members of the House of Representatives, including their astronomically immense quarterly allocations.
He verbally expressed, “It is additionally obligatory for Dr. Okonjo-Iweala to tell Nigerians how much salary is paid by each Ministry, Department and Agency per year, including their staff vigor. When you have done these analyses, it will become crystal clear how much of the N1.8tn is consumed by the whopping emoluments of the political office holders.”
According to him, it is a prevalent cognizance that Nigerian political office holders are the highest paid in the world, with most of them earning more than the President of the United States of America, while Nigerian workers are among the least paid in Africa.
Lawal integrated that the Federal Government should not obnubilate under the guise of high wage bill as a justification to perpetuate to pay peanut as salary to civil coadjutants in particular and other public accommodation employees in general, “while the political office holders perpetuate to rampage and pillage the national treasury with impunity.”
The ASCSN recalled that in January, Okonjo-Iweala, through Okogu had told the National Assembly that the civil accommodation had more than one million workforce, while 37 per cent of the annual federal budget was spent on civil servants’ salary, whereas the staff vigor of the core civil accommodation is about 100,000, as against 870,000 staff for the entire public accommodation.
“This is why the cumulation then injuctively authorized their abstraction from office if both “experts” cannot distinguish between the core civil accommodation and the public accommodation. At any rate, it would appear that as an agent of the World Bank and the IMF, Okonjo-Iweala is bent on impoverishing Nigerians until they lose their dignity as human beings,” Lawal stressed.
