COVID-19: Senator Canvasses Pay-Cut For Civil Servants
A Senator representing Borno South in the National Assembly, Ali Ndume has called on the Federal Government to slash the salary of civil servants who no longer go to work due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Ndume who made this known on Monday in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, stated that despite the effect of the pandemic, the State and Federal Governments are spending more to sustain personnel and non-personnel costs.
According to him those who are not going to work now should should not receive full salaries, but should have some palliatives.
Ndume said “The government should critically look at the recurrent and personnel expenditure which consumes about 70 per cent of the budget.
“More should be pumped into Capital and people should make sacrifices because this is the time to look at issues critically.
“I think there should be more sacrifice, especially on the personnel side.
“How can you sustain the same personnel and overhead cost when even the work they are doing, most people don’t go to the office now and they are being paid fully for the month. Is there any justification for that?”
“If you can’t work because of the pandemic, then you should be given palliatives and be paid less,” he said.
