The Attorney-General of the Federation has spoken up about the plausible directive of President Buhari to pay workers their salaries on the 25th.
Ahmed Idris
Ahmed Idris, Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), spoke to journalists in Abuja.
He said, paying salaries on the 25th of every month would “be given a test, I believe, by this month.”
“There is a standing instruction of Mr. President to pay salary on or before the 24th or 25th of every month and we will try as much as possible to comply and to abide by that.
“We are taking a step further to make a provision whereby we can accommodate salary payments even before FAAC.
“We will go to seek for necessary approval of our political masters to make sure that at least salary and other statutory payments are made even before FAAC.
“Because we can project how much they are and therefore we can prepare and hit the ground running to make them realisable and actualised.
“Even where we delay FAAC, we can still pay salary,” he said.