The Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission,
RMAFC, has said that the severance packages of the Governor of the Central Bank
of Nigeria, CBN, surpassed that of President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Chairman RMAFC, Mr Mohammed Bello, made this disclosure
in a Channelstv interview on Friday.
Bello, who didn’t mention the President’s salary or
severance packages, however, stated that no public officers’ salaries should be
higher than that of the President.
“I don’t believe that any public officer, whether of CBN or
other agencies, should have a package higher than that of the President”.
He added that, “I think this is not good for Nigeria, the
President is the President, and there has to be a way where these things are
adequately harmonised. In a manner, some chief executives will not get a salary
higher than that of the President or governors.”
When asked if the severance packages and salaries of some
agency’s chief executives are unconstitutional, he said it is not. However, he
said there is a need to harmonise the salary structures of all public officers.
According to him, “The law didn’t necessarily say that these
things are wrong, but what we are doing now is that, this multiple salary
structures which are more like a duplication of responsibility, we will try to
harmonize them based on the law because the CBN Governor or his Deputy, those
are political appointments that must be captured by the Commission.
“The salaries of Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian
Communications Commission, NCC, Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Executive
Vice Chairman of National Agency for Science and Engineering, NASENI, Boss of
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPCL and other big agencies,
must not be more than that of the President”, he stated.
Earlier the RMAFC commenced plans to review the salaries of
political officer holders.
This is coming at a time when workers across the country
still receive less than N40,000 monthly minimum wage.
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