Senator Ali Ndume has reached out to the federal government to slash salaries of civil servants who are not working due to the coronavirus pandemic. The senator who is the Senate Chairman committee on Army, gave this suggestion when he spoke at a media briefing in Maiduguri, the Borno state.
He suggested that those who are not going to work now should be given palliatives and paid less.”The government should critically look at the recurrent and personnel expenditure which consumes about 70% of the budget. More should be pumped into Capital. People should make sacrifice. This is the time to look at issues critically.Â
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”
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