BREAKING NEWS, Politics
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THE Federal government has described the joint protest by some staff of the Federal Ministry of Finance, Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation and the Budget Office of the Ministry of Budget and National Planning as unjustified. The staff are demanding for the payment of an unofficial allowance totaling N1.2 billion which has been brought to the attention of the management of the federal ministry of finance.
A statement issued by the ministry and made available to Realnews said the payment of what the protesting staff called a special overtime, SOT, was stopped by the last administration in 2014 on the ground that it was not listed in any extant government circular, or financial regulations or the public service rules. It said the sum of N1.2 billion computed by the staff union for payment could not have been budgeted for in 2016 in the first place, not only because of the paucity of funds, but also the fact that the SOT allowance was not part of the remuneration in the Federal Public Service; and that the Federal Ministry of Finance, the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation and the Budget Office of the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, do not individually or collectively, owe any of their personnel their salaries.
“In view of the foregone, the management of the Federal Ministry of Finance wishes to categorically state that the protests have no justifiable grounds,” the statement issued by Salisu Na’Inna Dambatta, director of Information, Federal Ministry of finance said
— Jun 20, 2016 @ 19:40 GMT
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