Senator Ali Ndume has requested for salary of civil servants who no longer go to work owing to the COVID-19 pandemic to be slashed.
Ndume made this request while speaking at a media briefing in Maiduguri yesterday. He said in spite the effect of the COVID-19, it costs the state and Federal Government more to sustain personnel and non personnel cost. He suggested that workers who are not going to work for now should be offered palliatives and receive less pay.
He said: ”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.
“I think there shoukd 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.”
