The Association of
Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has given the Federal Government until
Monday, September 18, 2017 to pay owed promotion arrears, outstanding salaries,
and other allowances or face strike action.
A
statement issued yesterday by the ASCSN Secretary-General, Comrade Alade Bashir
Lawal, said for more than two years the Federal Government had been promising
to pay federal officers their outstanding entitlements without doing so.
“It
is rather unfortunate that the same Federal Government that has given State
Governments bailouts up to three times to settle the entitlements owed their
workers, takes delight in punishing its own employees by denying them their
legitimate benefits,” the union stated.
According
to the union, the debts owed federal officers include outstanding salaries,
promotion arrears, 1st 28days allowance on transfer from post, mandatory
training allowance of OHCSF 2010, repatriation allowances, burial expenses, and
death benefits.
It
recalled that the union had written several letters to the Presidency to settle
the debts owed Federal officers but the Government had been dilly dallying.
It
urged prominent citizens, royal fathers, religious leaders and other
stakeholders to prevail on the Federal Government to pay the Debt owed Federal
officers and not wait until the strike action starts before they begin to
bargain with the union.
- Daily Trust
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