Federal workers on the platform of the Federal Workers Forum (FWF) have appealed to the federal government under the leadership of President Bola Tinubu to pay outstanding salaries and other entitlements for the workers.
The union made this appeal during its online meeting held on Monday.
The communiqué issued at the end of the meeting was made available to news men on Tuesday.
The workers in the communiqué, signed by its National Coordinator, Comrade Andrew Emelieze, stated that the federal government is still owing the poorly paid workers who are already struggling for survival.
The workers maintained that the federal government is owing years of promotion arrears, backlog of duty tour allowances (DTA), eight months of 25/35% increments, five months of wage awards, arrears of the new national minimum wage, earned allowances of federal tertiary institutions (FTI), hazard/uniform allowances of military and paramilitary officers, and many more arrears owed to federal workers and pensioners.
Emelieze, in the communiqué, appealed to Tinubu to urgently fashion out radical moves to immediately tackle the rising cost of foodstuffs and other goods and services.
He said, “Mr President, Sir, the situation at hand is really very bad, worrisome, and disturbing. Nigerians are dying of hunger. The tough and hard policies you are making have brought untold hardship to the Nigerian people. Our people are now stranded everywhere; almost everybody is now a beggar.
“Mr President, Sir, we are calling for your immediate attention; federal government workers are starving, and almost everyone is on loan to survive the day.
Our take-home hardly survives us for a week. We, therefore, urge you to personally intervene in the plight of the federal workers. We urge you to reevaluate the so-called new national minimum wage of ₦70,000; this to us is ridiculous and should be a national embarrassment and a disgrace. Federal government workers have been financially embarrassed. We, therefore, reject ₦40,000 added to our monthly take-home as the new national minimum wage.”
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