NATIONAL ASSEMBLY LEGISLATIVE AIDES FORUM SET TO SHUT DOWN NASS OVER ALLOWANCES.

The National Assembly legislative Aides forum NASSLAF has lamented the poor welfare of legislative aides since the inception of the 8th Assembly in June 2015.

The Legislative Aides are in five categories which include, Senior Legislative aides, Legislative Assistant 1 and 2, Personal Assistant and Secretary. Each of these categories are deprived of their training, allowance, and the fear of incomplete severance entitlement which is due then at the end of the tenure in 2019.

The Forum for Personal Assistant to Legislators in the both chambers have reported that only three months allowance have been paid to them since 2015. They have expressed fear that the decision to withhold the balance of 13th and half months by management could be deliberate as the 8th Assembly will soon be come to an end.

In a press statement issued by the forum the aides asked " If our allowances are not paid, what is our hope that our severance would also be paid.? " We were told by the legislative aides of the 7th Assembly that their own severance was not fully paid and we do not want to be a victim, so we call on the relevant authorities to be aware of our plight and hardship.

We will vehemently resist and reject any half severance entitlement. It must be paid fully as stipulated in the rules.

Meanwhile some Legislative Aides were reported to be sick without money for treatment. We lost some colleagues due to lack of money to pay medical bills while others are stranded without funds to return back from their journey yet unpaid allowances linger, which the NASS management has deliberately refuse to pay.

We call on the Federal government to intervene and ensure that our dues are fully paid.

"We came on board on the 9th of June 2015. A DTA is quarterly, so from June 2015 -August 2018 in total is 13 DTA's and the management has only paid just 4 & half", representative of the aides forum stated.

Legislative aid appointment is a temporary staff appointment and such you are not entitle to all peripheral attach to staff welfare

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Legislative aid appointment is a temporary staff appointment and such you are not entitle to all peripheral attach to staff welfare

Legislative aide is entitled to allowances just like aides of the President, Vice President. Their appointment is not permanent like their elected bosses, so denying them allowances while their bosses and other categories of aides in other arms of government enjoys such is nothing but wickedness

Ministers are aide of the President, they are not denied their allowances, because their work is temporal, why will aides be denied when their work is equally temporal when both are public servant