SDP National Chairman Wants Uniform Salary For Government Workers

The National Chairman of Social Democratic Party, SDP, Alhaji Shehu Musa Gabam, has canvassed uniform salaries for all civil servants,  saying there is no reason for the current disparity.

He said while civil servants in some federal agencies receive juicy salaries, others are paid peanuts despite working for the same government.

Gabam spoke in Abuja on Monday during the commemoration of the International Youth Day Celebration 2024, organised by the SDP.

“People in government establishments collect money up to one, two, three million naira for someone to get employed. That is the kind of barbarism we’re going through.

“Some parents sell properties to train their children and now, when it is time for the children to take care of them, the parents need to sell something to get them employed.

“There’s no greater disservice than this. I wish President Bola Tinubu could fish out those ministries and parastatals that they called ‘juicy.’

“From the decimation of salaries, people working in NNPCL and NPA would look superior to people working in the Ministry of Information and other Nigerians, and these are government agencies, ministries and parastatals, but they discriminate even on the salary scale and we think they’re doing the right thing.

“It can never be right until the government unifies all salaries. Parents should not be struggling to get their children into NNPCL, FIRS, Maritime or NPA because of the salary,” he added.

He further said every ministry should be juicy based on the calibre and capacity of those running it.

“It’s not about the office but who is there. We have lazy people who have no experience of being even councillors being appointed as ministers, and they’re experimenting on the seat,” he observed.

Gabam, therefore, tasked President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to unify the salaries of all civil servants in the country, so as to ensure uniformity in service and higher productivity.