The National leadership of Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (Trade Union Side) has resolved to picket the office of the Accountant General of the Federation by Wednesday 3rd April, 2025 if the abysmal cut in the salaries of Federal Public Servants in Nigeria is not addressed.

This was contained in a letter addressed to the office of the Accountant General of Federation, dated 17th March, 2025, vide JNPSNC GEN COR VOL 1/ 96.

The letter indicated that there have been sharp cuts and mutilated salaries paid in the months of January and February 2025 to Federal Public Servant.

Gbenga Olowoyo, the National Secretary of the joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (Trade Union Side), signed the letter and made it available to newsmen in Abuja.

The letter stated inter alia that ?The attention of the National leadership of the joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (JNPSNC) Trade Union Side has been drawn to a press release issued by the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation dated 7th March, 2025 bothering on the mutilated payment of salaries of Federal Public Servants for the months of January and February 2025.

?The National leadership of JNPSNC had taken critical step to look into what Accountant General Office paid in the months of October, November and December 2024 which it claimed comprised the following:

?The claims by the office of the Accountant General of the Federation is far from the truth.

?The diligent and scientific findings by the National leadership of Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (JNPSNC) Trade Union Side vide comparative study of workers? pay slips for the months of October, November and December indicated that the Federal Government only used the instrumentality of media propaganda to ditch out unsubstantiated information.

?The truth of the matter is that the Federal Government is owing federal workers the under-listed outstanding payments:

?It is expedient to state that the payment of Peculiar Allowance which was supposed to be 40% of workers? salaries but was surreptitiously short-changed by the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation with abysmal payment which does not commensurate with the actual percentage stipulated in Federal Government circular issued during the former administration under former President Muhammadu Buhari. ?

?On the strength of the aforesaid, the office of the Accountant General of the Federation should, as a matter of urgency, do a thorough assessment of his claims and correct the anomalies and pay correct Salaries for Federal workers in the month of March 2025 alongside arrears of the mutilated salaries experienced by workers in the months of January and February 2025.

?Without mincing words, failure on the part of the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation to do the needful, by paying normal salaries in the month of March 2025 (and arrears of short payments that characterized the months of January and February 2025 salaries) workers will not hesitate to picket the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation , by Wednesday 3rd April, 2025, in order to correct the unwarranted and unjustifiable Salaries cut.

?The Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Chairman of income Salaries and wages commission, leaderships of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Trade Union Congress (TUC) and Presidents/ General Secretaries of affiliate unions of Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (JNPSNC) Trade Union Side have been notified accordingly.? (Daily Sun)

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