Civil servants in ministries,
departments and parastatals of government have decried the huge
deductions on their November salaries without any forewarning, Leadership report.
This is even as they lamented the increasing prices of goods and services.
The newspaper’s findings revealed that
the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control,
NAFDAC, and the Public Complaints Commission last month were
respectively under lock and key as a result of payment of half salaries
while many others joined in November.
While some were said to record as high as 50% cuts, others could not ascertain how much they had been shortchanged.
Speaking on grounds of anonymity, a
staff of Voice of Nigeria (VON) lamented that they only learnt of the
salary cut when an internal memory dated November 30, 2016 was made
available to them on Wednesday.
The memo addressed by the HOF to all
staff, titled: ‘Reduction in November 2016 Salary’ stated that ‘we
received the Payroll report for the Month of November 2016 from IPPIS
and observed there is a drastic reduction in the Net Pay of Voice of
Nigeria staff’.
‘On further enquiry, we discovered that the reasons for the deductions are as stated below’
Copy of the memo herewith attached…..
The memo made available to Leadership
blamed the deductions on tax, pensions and national housing funds which
were all formerly based on consolidated fund but had all affected staff
gross salaries for November, 2016.
Another level 14 Cadre officer who spoke
with Leadership on grounds of anonymity said “when I got the alert, I
could not figure what was wrong, I just realised my salary was short
with over N10,000. I wonder what those on level 7/8 will go home with at
this time’
She laments that this is so sad, “At a
time we are crying for increase, how can they be slashing? Things are so
expensive and it’s most worrisome to have the little we have be toyed
with”, she lamented
Another staff of the ministry of justice who also spoke with Leadership said she got her alert on November 29 and realised a deduction of over N40,000 was made.
I don’t understand what is happening she lamented.
A CBN Staff also told the newspaper that his salary was cut by half.
The affected staff have called on the
accountant-general of the federation to immediately look into the matter
even as they called out to the president for help.
This article originally appeared on Leadership.
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