Federal Government has on Friday,
December 19,2014 debunked reports that salaries of civil servants have not been
paid.
Mr Paul Nwabuikwu, the Special
Adviser to the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, had
said the report was false and baseless, as he maintained that salaries of most
civil servant have been paid, while plans were on to ensure that the
outstanding are paid before the year end. Continue..
According to Vanguard news, the
Minister was responding to a recent press reports issued by a group called, the
Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, in which the group claimed
that federal government had not been able to pay thousands of civil servants
their October and November salaries.
The CME in the statement described
the release as a falsehood and distortions about the current status of the
payment of federal civil servants and urged the public to disregard them.
‘‘The group is fast earning a
reputation as a tool of political groups ready to deploy scurrilous falsehood
against the policies and programmes of the Federal Government. It clearly does
not represent the interest of the vast majority of hard working and
professional civil servants.
‘‘Contrary to the group’s statement,
it is absolutely untrue that “government has not been able to pay thousands of
civil servants their October and November salaries”.
‘‘As can be confirmed, the
overwhelming majority of civil servants are getting their salaries regularly.
The true situation, as stated by the CME during the Presentation of the 2015
Budget proposal on Wednesday is that there was a delay in paying the salaries
of some civil servants in some ministries due to a technical glitch which
affected the IPPIS system through which payments are made,’’ the statement
stated.
According to the statement, the
delays were also caused by some MDAs using money set aside for salaries to pay
allowances without consultation with the Budget Office.
As CME has promised, the CME
statement assured that the issues would be resolved and all civil servants get
paid their salaries before the end of December
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