Senior Civil Servants Commend Buhari for the Swift Payment of Salaries

 

Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, ASCSN, yesterday, commended President Muhammadu Buhari for the payment of salaries of Federal Public Servants by April 25, urging him to ensure that other benefits such as promotion arrears among other allowances owed Federal employees were settled in good time, according to the Vanguard.

Recall that for some months now, payment of salaries of Federal Workers have been delayed and that prompted President Buhari to direct the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, OAGF, to ensure that salaries are paid by the 24th or 25th of every month.

In a statement, ASCSN Secretary-General, Alade Bashir Lawal, expressed joy that the OAGF carried out the directive of Mr. President as April 2016 salaries of federal officers had been paid.

“We commend Mr. President for this directive and the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation for carrying it out. It is our hope that the OAGF has put necessary machinery in place to sustain the payment schedule and not to relapse to the old ways after few months,” the Union stated.

ASCSN posited that early payment of salaries would boost the morale of employees and ginger them to improve their productivity and urged the state governments to emulate the Federal Government on early payment of salaries to their workers.

The body also urged President Buhari to ensure that outstanding salaries, promotion arrears and other allowances owed Federal workers and captured in the 2016 Budget were paid as soon as it was signed into Law.