The Association of Senior Civil Servants 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
service.


The organisation also stated that records at its
disposal showed clearly that the staff strength in the entire public service was about 870,000, and not 1.2 million being carried about by the minister, “unless there is a hidden agenda somewhere.”


The Secretary-General of ASCSN, Mr. Alade Lawal, in
a statement obtained by The PUNCH on Thursday,
emphasised that it had “become necessary for the
minister to give the graphic details of the amount so that Nigerians could be better informed 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
respect of the ongoing nationwide strike by the
Nigerian Medical Association, claimed that the
Federal Government’s wage bill for public servants
had risen from N857bn in 2009 to N1.8trn, while the staff strength in the public service was 1.2 million.


But Lawal called on Okonjo-Iweala to state publicly
how much of the N1.8tn was consumed by public
servants, including ministers, special and ordinary
advisers, personal, senior and junior assistants,
senators and members of the House of Representatives, including their huge quarterly allocations.


He said, “It is also necessary for Dr. Okonjo-Iweala to tell Nigerians how much salary is paid by each
Ministry, Department and Agency per year, including their staff strength. 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 common knowledge 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 added that the Federal Government should not hide under the guise of high wage bill as a
justification to continue to pay peanut as salary to
civil servants in particular and other public service
employees in general, “while the political office
holders continue 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 service had more than one million workforce, while 37 per cent of the annual federal budget was spent on civil servants’ salary, whereas the staff strength of the core civil service is about 100,000, as against 870,000 staff for the entire public service.


“This is why the union then demanded their removal from office if both “experts” cannot distinguish between the core civil service and the public service. 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.


SOURCE:
http://www.punchng.com/news/civil-servants-fault-okonjo-iweala-on-n1-8tn-wage-bill/

Mr Alade Lawal must be an APC member

Mynd44: Mr Alade Lawal must be an APC member

You and your bigotry! small time now you will start banning your fellow bigots

Mynd44: Mr Alade Lawal must be an APC member

Alade Lawal didn't count some public servants here who are on their pay check, I mean the PDP e-rats

one of them's comment is above mine

ok

Nigerian Drama... Let's watch as it unfolds

Okonjo is a textbook
economist! If you need a
real developmental
economists go for Brazil
or chine trained not
Europe or US trained. Or
why are these western
economies in comatose.

I have not always been her fan. I just think she is prolly over hyped .

anyway, maybe she has good intentions but if dis allegations re true then she shud just b kicked out.

I don't do well with her type

The biggest challenge we face today as a nation is that politicians have created a huge disparity in wages to their advantage. The minimum monthly wage in the civil service is 18,000 naira but even the lowest political office holder grabs hundreds of thousands of naira without doing any work. Some of them dont even have a fixed pay - they just pillage the treasury with reckless abandon. What is salary to the president, governors, lg chairmen, when they can spend billions as "security vote" without accounting for it! I laugh when people complain about lack of development despite the huge revenue accruing to the 3 tiers of govt. The money goes into the pockets of political office holders and the few civil servants whose collusion is needed to perpetrate fraud.
Okonjo-Iweala is a fraud herself. She is paid in dollars. Is dollars our national currency? As long as we do not have honest, selfless and visionary leaders we are doomed in this country.

Another issue to be swept under the carpet.

oko...njo iweala. Haha, what a name.

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my friend will you get out of here..you scally wag
@topic Mr lawal are you a learner? Don't you know that in Nigeria when the word money and minister are used in the same sentence there is always a "HIDDEN" agenda..

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Them all corrupt

When women hold political posts , they always do everytin in d lady's way 'Cheating'. They are proving y they can't control d affairs of d country.

na today?

PDP n their lies.Devil sef go knw sef him b apprentice in lying comparing at d rate PDP is lying.

Wahala dey .....well let her speak about it

All of u will account for it on d day of ressurection. Useless people

ksbusari: When women hold political posts , they always do everytin in d lady's way 'Cheating'. They are proving y they can't control d affairs of d country.

men cheat too

after all, Dora Akunyili is a female and GEJ is a male

Okay

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Now who is lying____Ascon Gen_sec or Madam Okonjo(1.2m or 800,000)
#Poilitics is something else in Nigeria
#Na our money dem wan chop oOooo

Mynd44: Mr Alade Lawal must be an APC member

There is nothing to be excited about. He asked a legitimate question and the minister or her aides should provide answers.

K

Sincere9gerian:
There is nothing to be excited about. He asked a legitimate question and the minister or her aides should provide answers.

By these two statements below, The Secretary-General of ASCSN, Mr.
Alade Lawal is lying

The organisation also stated that records at its disposal showed clearly that the staff strength in the entire public service was about 870,000, and not 1.2 million being carried about by the minister, “unless there is a hidden agenda somewhere.”

- whereas the staff strength of the core civil service is about 100,000, as against 870,000 staff for the entire public service.

Who are core civil servants?

Alade seems to be speaking from both sides of his mouth, on one hand you admit that Nigerian politicians are the most expensive to pay, on the other you say the wage bill is overestimated.

Yet again you go complaining that civil servants are underpaid.

If you are to pass across any info to someone as smart as NOI then learn to speak coherently.

Onkonjo.
Bring
Back
Our
Money