December 1, 2022
…Tasks EFCC to go after culpable agencies
The Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) says the country currently has N7 trillion unremitted revenues in some agencies.
RMAFC Chairman, Mohammed Shehu said on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday as he bemoaned a situation where some government agencies spend all the monies they generate.
He called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to go after the culpable agencies.
Speaking on salaries within the Civil Service, Shehu said Nigeria has about 17 different salary categories across several agencies.
“The salary of Mr. President is not up to N1,300,000 a month…the allowances of the President are factored into that salary. In 2008, that was considered a big money but now, there are people in the private sector and public sector that earn twice, three times, four times,” .
He noted that said some staff of government agencies like the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), amongst others, earn emoluments bigger than the President’s.
The NPA is one of the agencies with high revenues. It generated over N172bn in the first half of 2022.
“What I was saying that time is that no public servant should earn salaries bigger than Mr. President’s but we do have public servants that earn bigger than Mr. President: NCC, NIMASA, NPA, Central Bank,” he said.
The RMAFC chair also said some government officials get as high as N500m as their severance package but the President gets N10m after his tenure.
Shehu however urged the Federal Government to speedily implement the Steve Oronsaye report submitted over a decade ago in order to merge government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) performing similar functions as a way to cut governance cost.
