Nigeria - Civil servants in Ekiti State have called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Organised Labour to monitor the bailout package to be released soon.
An interest group, Enlightened Workers’ Forum (EWF), claimed that only N5 billion of the N9.6 billion received from the Federal Government last year was used to pay one month salary to workers while pensioners’ benefits were not paid.
In a statement in Ado-Ekiti yesterday by EWF Coordinator Mike Bamidele, the workers advised the Federal Government not to pay the new bailout funds into the state’s account.
The workers suggested that the funds should rather be paid into a dedicated account that will have the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance and the Accountant General as signatories.
Besides the EFCC, other bodies that should be represented in the disbursement are the national secretariats of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC).
“The team should demand from the state the salary vouchers and order payments directly into the accounts of individual workers and the same should be done for pensioners.
“The fund should be protected in such a manner that no governor would have any form of control over it.”
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