Presidency issues 7-day deadline on workers’ pay
Ministries, agencies to compile lists of unpaid employees
Labour leaders and workers are excited over a presidential directive that all arrears of salaries and allowances must be paid.
The Presidency on Monday directed Ministries, Departments and
Agencies (MDAs) to compile the names of all public service employees who
are being owed arrears of salaries and allowances within seven days so
that they can be paid without further delay.
The September 14 circular came from the Office of the Head of the
Civil Service of the Federation (OHCSF). It immediately sent members of
the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) jumping for
joy.
The names of those being owed are to be compiled within seven days for them to be paid “immediately”.
ASCSN Secretary-General Comrade Alade Bashir Lawal, who broke the
news in a statement released in Abuja yesterday, praised President
Muhammadu Buhari for bringing hope to thousands of public service
employees who are being owed arrears of salaries and allowances for
years.
The Presidency identified the outstanding benefits as: salary
arrears, promotion arrears, 1st 28 days allowance on transfer from post,
repatriation allowance, burial expenses, death benefits and mandatory
training of OHCSF in 2010.
The Presidency directed the MDAs to ensure that each unpaid entitlement
is accurate, verifiable, with the name, designation, status (serving or
retired) and amount due to each officer.
“The correct information should reach the Office of the Head of Civil
Service of the Federation on or before Monday September 21, 2015,” the
circular stressed.
Lawal recalled that in letters written to the President since his
election and assumption of office, the union reminded him of the
outstanding salaries and allowances and stressed the need for the
government to pay up to boost the morale not only of the affected
officers but also that of other teeming public service employees.
He expressed confidence that as soon as the lists are submitted to
the Presidency, the lingering arrears of salaries and allowances would
be paid “so as to put the ugly situation behind and move forward”.
The union warned of dire consequences, which may include trade union
actions, if the MDAs played politics with the Presidential directive.
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