Don’t reduce civil servants salary, Labour tells Buhari

It warned the new administration against listening to unsolicited advice coming from uninformed quarters calling for salary cuts, saying the move will have great implications, lamenting that civil servants are poorly paid as it were. A statement issued in Lagos by President of the association Comrade Bobboi Bala Kaigama and the Secretary-General, Comrade Alade Bashir […]

It warned the new administration against listening to unsolicited advice coming from uninformed quarters calling for salary cuts, saying the move will have great implications, lamenting that civil servants are poorly paid as it were.
A statement issued in Lagos by President of the association Comrade Bobboi Bala Kaigama and the Secretary-General, Comrade Alade Bashir Lawal, noted that it is criminal for anybody or group of persons to contemplate cutting down the salaries of civil servants who are already underpaid in a country where the government has reneged in all its responsibilities to the citizenry.
“Any attempt by the new government to reduce the salaries of workers will be viewed as an invitation for war by the labour movement. As we speak, many states owed civil servants bulk of monthly salaries and other entitlements and yet, these workers are expected to come to work by magic, feed their families, stay healthy, pay children school fees and rent.
“It must be recognized that civil servants’ pay has lost its value since the last increment done in 2010. The subsidy removal, devaluation of the naira and the high rate of infrastructural decay has continued to rob innocent civil servants the value of their money,” the union lamented.