The Labour Party has condemned what it described as an unsolicited campaign by the Chairman of the Nigeria Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Mohammed Shehu, for salary increase for Nigerian politicians.
A press statement on Thursday by the newly appointed interim national publicity secretary of the party, Tony Akeni said, Shehu had at “a press conference insulted the intelligence of Nigerians by claiming that all Mr. President receives a paltry N18 million for his office in an entire year, as salary, which in his calculations, N1.5million per month, while his ministers receive #1 million per month or N12 million per annum.”
According to Akeni, such a statement was a lie, adding that a report from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) showed that the President already lives in affluence, beyond his monthly salary.
The statement pointed out that “Labour Party views the proposed Salary increase as not only unconscionable but insensitive, especially at this time when countless Nigerians are passing through untold economic hardship and deprivations, caused by corrupt ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government.
“Our party’s advice to the Chairman of the RMAFC and his unseen collaborators, in and outside the commission, who are behind this misadventure, is that they should immediately retrace their steps in their best interest. so, they don’t incur the wrath of suffering Nigerians.
“Perhaps, the RMAFC, by the proposed increase, is encouraging the Tinubu administration’s unquestionable borrowings and accumulation of foreign debt that have already mortgaged the future of the nation’s unborn generations.
“If anything, the campaign RMAFC should consider increasing the minimum wage of the Nigerian workers from its present miserable sum of N70,000 per month, which even the United States government, in a statement, recently advocated for improvement.
“If a foreign nation could demonstrate such empathy towards our suffering citizens, the RMAFC’s chairman and commission members have no valid excuse not to do more.
“Fellow Nigerians, the fight to dismantle the structure of corruption in our country is not Peter Obi’s fight alone, or that of the Labour Party. It is the fight of all the 200 million Nigerians, a fight for our children, children and generations unborn.
“APC is burning down our country with never-before-seen corruption in virtually every sector of our economy.
It takes a village to tie down a mad relative to give him medicine or put him in stocks for the safety of others. In 2027, let us rise together in communal unison as one people, irrespective of tribe, religion, and region, to send out of our land the wolf packs ravaging our flock, values, and destiny as a great country.”
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