Following the initiation of the uncertain strike activity set out on by the Organized work, The Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Mr Ahmed Idris has repeated his promise to pay rates of all specialists on the Federal Government finance disregarding the on-going Labor strike.
Mr. Ahmed Idris gave this responsibility today while addressing Newsmen at the Treasury House in Abuja. " We have a standing request from Mr. President to pay specialists pay rates from the 25th of consistently, which we have endeavored hard to satisfy to Nigerian laborers and this month won't be an exemption" kept up the AGF.
He anyway said that the installment of pay rates can't be accomplished in an environment where the basic partners are not enabled access to their workplaces. "I should clarify that compensation installment includes various procedures that don't start and end with the OAGF. There are other basic partners like the Cash Management Department in Ministry of Finance and other people who gathered do their beat before we can conclude", Mr Idris said.
"On going to the workplace toward the beginning of today we met the doors of the workplace bolted and thought about how we can keep this guarantee in the event that we are being bolted out of the workplace. In the wake of talking with the neighborhood arm of the Labor in the workplace on the need to pay rates, they yielded to permit me and a portion of my staff in however the Gates are still bolted. I subsequently advance to work to open our entryways with the goal that we can have unhindered access to address their issues".
The AGF additionally spoke to the National Leadership of Labor to reevaluate their remain on the on-going strike saying that the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari like never before has shown high duty towards meeting the welfare of the Nigerian Workers.
He accordingly listed a portion of the simple notable activities the present Government has so far embraced to enhance the welfare of the laborers to include:
I. the installment of over N50 billion for Promotion unpaid debts from 2012 – 2016;
ii. the endorsement of another N60 Biilion for the installment of Salary Arrears with impact from 2011 - 2016;
iii. the President's ongoing endorsement of N22.68 Billion for the installment of benefits Arrears to the retirees of the dead Nigeria Airways laborers which has been exceptional for more than 14 years;
iv. the President's endorsement of N20 billion to take care of ASSU's demand for foundation improvement in both Federal and State Universities;
v. the Federal Government strategy of Non-conservation of specialists ;
vi. Arrangement of occupations for the joining Nigerian jobless young people, particularly: the enrollment of more than 10,000 Policemen; enlistment by the Army, Navy and Air constrain; enrollment by the para-military, for example, the Fire Service, Immigration, Nigeria Prison Service , Federal Road Safety Corps and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps;
vii. Arrangement into Various Ministries, Departments and Agencies;
viii. the installment of compensations to Federal Government Workers as at when due, and also advancement of laborers as at when due.
Mr Idris in this way asked Labor to confide in Mr. President and come back to the way of exchange, and arrangement, as the President has shown enough duty by setting up the tripartite board of trustees. The panel which is going by Ms Amal Pepple is saddled with the duty of counseling generally with partners with a view to thinking of a reasonable and worthy the lowest pay permitted by law.
He additionally forewarned that " we are for the most part working for a similar framework and we ought to do nothing that could undermine the economy and prompt the fall of a similar framework''
It will be reviewed that the AGF had toward the finish of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee meeting (FAAC), on Wednesday 26th September, guaranteed that compensations of Federal Government Workers will be paid.
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