We Can’t Pay March Salary In Full - Kano State Govt Tells Civil Servants

 

The government, through its commissioner of Information, Malam Muhammad Garba in a release on Tuesday, said this is because of the drop in federal allocation for the period.

“The drop in federal allocation for the period under review has made it difficult for the government to implement the new salary package,” he said.

The nation chapter of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) had given the authorities a seven-day ultimatum to the nation government to refund and stop what it described as “unlawful deduction” from civil servants’ salaries or face business movement.

Chairman of NLC within the state, Kabiru Ado Minjibir, gave the ultimatum after an emergency assembly of the State Executive Council on Friday.

He insisted that failure of the authorities to forestall the “unexplained” deduction before the give up of its ultimatum on April 6, 2021, workers could embark on a three-day caution strike from the midnight of April 7.

“Given the situation, the organised labour must have cause with the government because embarking on strike won’t in any way clear up the problem,” the commissioner stated.

Malam Garba stated for the month of March, the nation government received a total allocation of N12, 400,000,000 from the federation account, out of which the state gathered N6,one hundred,000,000, at the same time as the 44 local governments collected the sum of N6,300,000,000.

The commissioner explained that for the nation authorities to pay the consolidated wages to its people, it needs extra billions of naira that's presently now not available.

He pointed out that at its meeting with the labour union in May 2020, there was an understanding that authorities might pay workers’ salaries based on percent of the whole disbursement acquired.

He also recalled that during November/December, final yr, “similar necessary but temporary measure became adopted inside the payment of employees’ profits as a result of the lack to preserve the authorities going which become, but, reversed for the months of January and February, after the scenario advanced.”

He thereafter attraction for the help and cooperation of the labour union and the whole workforce in trendy to hold the good working courting with the government inside the interest of business concord.

He further assured employees within the kingdom that they would preserve to get hold of the new package as quickly because the situation improves.