Labour Party has warned the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), to forget its proposed salary increase for public officeholders as such would lead to more borrowings by the Federal Government.
Labour Party’s interim National Publicity Secretary Prince Tony Akeni, in a statement on Thursday, said the RMAFC Chairman Mr. Mohammed Shehu, misformed Nigerians that the President receives a paltry annual salary of N18 million, calculated to be #1.5million per month, while his ministers receive #1 million per month or #12 million per annum.
“This is a lie as undenied report from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) showed that the President already live in affluence, beside his monthly salary,” the party said.
Labour Party viewed the proposed salary increase as not only unconscionable but insensitive, especially at a time when many Nigerians are passing through untold economic hardship and deprivations, caused by corrupt ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government.
It advised the RMAFC and its collaborators to immediately retrace their steps in their best interest, so as not incur the wrath of suffering Nigerians.
“Perhaps, the RMAFC, by the proposed increase, is encouraging Tinubu administration’s questionably 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 is to increase the minimum wage of the Nigerian workers from its present miserable sum of #70,000 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 his commission members have no valid excuse not to do more,” Labour Party stated
It called on the Nigeria people to join in the fight to dismantle the structure of corruption in the country, as it “is not Peter Obi’s fight alone, or that 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 see out of our land the wolf packs ravaging our flock, values and destiny as a great country.”
