Incongruity of Public Officers' Pay Hike Amidst a Fiscal Crisis PremiumTimesng: Nigeria
, etc. Shehu argued that it was wrong for any public sector worker to earn more than the President, whose salary is put at N14, 058,820 per annum.
But disparate salary structures within Nigeria's public sector are creations of government itself, which gives the approval each time heads of some of the agencies make these remuneration requests. That it is now an issue of concern, as expressed by RMAFC, which watched this dissonance in reward system ingrained in the public service without raising an eyebrow until now, is emblematic of systemic dysfunction in governance.
Therefore, it offends the sensibilities of Nigerians for anybody to propose a salary hike for public sector officials, especially lawmakers, presently. They are notoriously negligent of their responsibilities; those at the state level are, at best, rubber stamps of governors in the states, a development that destroys the checks and balances enshrined in the 1999 Constitution, as amended. The President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan had in 2021 disclosed that the monthly salary of a senator is N1.
Under the monetisation programme to reduce the cost of governance, car, housing and furniture allowances were introduced by the Olusegun Obasanjo administration. But the National Assembly legislators did not allow this to work. Till date, exotic cars are still procured at huge costs for each lawmaker in standing committees, under the guise that it will enable the discharge of oversight functions effectively.
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