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Buhari Government Plan To Cut Civil Servants’ Salaries To Save Cost– Minister of Finance

The President Muhammadu Buhari government is set to slash the salaries of civil servants in the country.

The Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed said that President Buhari had directed the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission to reduce the salaries of workers and employees of several agencies to save costs.

She said this was to help the government reduce the high cost of governance.

Ahmed said this on Tuesday when she spoke at a policy dialogue on corruption and cost of governance in Nigeria organised by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, in Abuja.

The Minister, therefore, called on the federal government agencies to work towards cutting down cost, adding that the administration plans to remove certain items from the budget to reduce the cost of governance.

She said, “We still see government expenditure increase to a terrain twice higher than our revenue.

“The nation’s budgets are filled every year with projects that are recycled over and over again and are also not necessary.

“Mr President has directed that the salaries committee that I chair work together with the head of service and other members of the committee to review the government payrolls in terms of cutting down on cost,’’ said the Minister.

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He tried it in 2015 but Saraki, Dino Melaye and other moles in the APC frustrated his effort that even the president couldn't slash his own salary.

PDP might never know peace until they go into extinction

Okay

Hnnmm

Poor civil servants will have to pay for the price.
What about the thieves in National Assembly? When will their salaries and allowances be slashed?

Nigeria will never forget this government and I hope they've learnt their lesson

They won't cut down on their expenses, they won't cut down the NASS budget which is shrouded in secrecy. They won't cut down on buhari's ₦3bn feeding budget. But they want to cut down the salaries of civil servants whose salaries barely make ends meet.

I hope the Sai baba zombies are happy! Darling buhari does it again!

JackBaueress1:
Poor civil servants will have to pay for the price.
What about the thieves in National Assembly? When will their salaries and allowances be slashed?

Those ones are the real drainage of the nation's resources.

Officialgarri:
He tried it in 2015 but Saraki, Dino Melaye and other moles in the APC frustrated his effort that even the president couldn't slash his own salary.

PDP might never know peace until they go into extinction

Why can he first slash the political officer before moving to civil servants.......comparing PDP to APC ..I think the diff is clear now.....comparing last national assembly member to this rubber stamp members is something else

dotunsteve:
Why can he first slash the political officer before moving to civil servants.......comparing PDP to APC ..I think the diff is clear now.....comparing last national assembly member to this rubber stamp members is something else

Read my comment again but slowly and you will find the answer to the bolded.

On top 30k, my fellow Nigerians if you can leave that country i will advice you to do so as quickly as possible, things will never get better as for as there is APC & PDP.

Make dem cut politicians own first not workers