Civil service threaten strike over non payment of salary!

The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has called
on the federal government to pay civil servants their December
salaries and outstanding emoluments since July 2013 or risk industrial
action.

In a statement, Monday, the union disclosed that thousands of federal
civil servants were yet to be paid their December 2013 salaries,
adding that the affected workers and their families spent Christmas in
pain and bore the pangs of hunger.

The ASCSN maintained that the inability of the federal government to
pay salaries had lent credence to the belief in some quarters that the
managers of the public sector economy were 'grossly incompetent and
rabidly corrupt'.

The statement signed by the union's secretary, Alade Lawal,
therefore called on the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,
to explain to Nigerians why the federal government could no longer pay
salaries to its employees as at when due.

It added that it had become necessary for the minister to address the
nation on the embarrassing situation since she has continued to
maintain that the country is not broke.

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