…..Says one senator takes home salary of 3000 pensioners every month

Against the backdrop of the recent outcry over the reinstatement of Abdurasheed Maina into the public service and later sacked, Nigeria`s foremost civil society group, Civil Liberties Organization(CLO), has said that the war against looting of public funds by civil servants cannot be won until public office holders change their attitude towards civil servants welfare.

Recall that in 2013, Alhaji Abdurashed Maina was appointed to head the Pension Reform Team with the mandate to fish out the bad eggs who were looting the pension funds they were asked to keep in trust for the civil servants. He and his team had diligently and patriotically gone to work ,discovered and recovered tens of billions of civil servants money that were siphoned. But instead of handing over the loot to government, he in –turn re-looted it and disappeared.

Speaking in an interview with irukkanews, the Executive Director of the organization, Ibuchukwu Ezike said that political office holders poor treatment of civil servants is the main reason why they steal. According to him, Nigerian civil servants and pensioners are being subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment. He said that the national minimum wage is N18,000 and yet most of the governors are not paying the salaries. He also said the stipend that pensioners receive are also not being paid regularly. Ezike said a Nigerian senator takes home every month the salaries of about 3000 pensioners. His words,

"Political Office holders poor treatment of civil servants could be said to be the main reason why they steal public funds. The average Nigerian civil servant has no future. His minimum wage is a paltry N18,000. He lives from hand to mouth. He can not save. He cannot build a house of his own and cannot even send his children to good schools. Even though I am not trying to justify looting. But it appears that the only way he can have a safe future is by stealing. We all have seen the fate of our pensioners. Some of them have slumped and died on the queue while waiting to be paid .I want to say that the only way we can reduce this urge to steal is to begin to treat our civil servants with dignity and paying them living wages as an when due”.


http://irukkanews.com/maina-why-civil-servants-cant-stop-looting-public-funds-clo-p3030-95.htm

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