The Director-General of the Budget Office, Ben Akabueze, has said that it would be difficult for about 428 government agencies to pay the salaries of their workers by the end of November.
Akabueze made this shocking revelation during his appearance before Senate Committee on Public Account recently. While making the revelation, he blamed the development on the new minimum wage that the government implemented among federal workers in January 2020. He said most of the agencies have been struggling to pay the salaries of their workers since the implementation of the new minimum wage.
He however told the committee that government would dip its hand into the service-wide vote to offset the shortfall in the salaries of the affected workers of the parastatals.
He said: “428 agencies will not be able to pay salary by the end of November. We will have to take from service wide vote to take care of the short fall in workers salaries.”
