The federal government proposes to centralize salary payments for all Nigerian civil servants, renaming them as Nigerian civil servants.
This entails the abolition of separate state and local government civil servant structures, ensuring a unified salary system administered through the IPPIS platform.
The objective is to ensure timely and complete payment of wages, allowing state governors to focus on state development using their statutory allocations. This move facilitates adherence to the new minimum wage without financial constraints from state governors.
If implemented, benefits include improved cash flow stability, reduced dependency among the workforce, streamlined access to loans, ghost worker control, decreased pressure for federal employment, enhanced wage distribution, alleviation of economic challenges, job creation, smoother labor dispute resolution, and minimized strikes and redundant workforce demands.
Constitutional amendments by the executive and legislative branches are necessary for implementation.
This suggestion, proposed by Bala Sesaughter to the federal government, could significantly benefit state and local government employees. These workers have been facing challenges due to state governors’ failure to implement new salary scale approved by the federal government, even the ₦18,000 minimum wage approved during the Goodluck Jonathan administration was not paid to some state civil servants, especially primary teachers and local government workers, let alone the ₦30,000 minimum wage.
Bala Sesughter’s detailed suggestions are as follows:
“Federal government to take over salary payments burden away from state governors. Abolish state civil servants and local government civil servants. Renames it Nigerian civil servants.
Have a unified salary structure.
This means that all salaries of Nigerian workers be paid by federal government via IPPIS platform.
The aim is to ensure that workers at all levels are promptly and fully paid their wages as and when due.
The governors can now concentrate on developing their respective states with the statutory allocation they received going forward.
With this government can conviniently pay the new minimum wage without having financial excuses from state governors, once the new minimum wage recieves approval.
The government and the Nigerian workers shall gain a lot from this policy if implemented. This will bring about:
*Improved and stable cash flow in the economy
*Reduce over dependant amongs working class.
*Easy access to loan for workers and easy recovery.
*Control ghost workers in the states.
*Reduce reduce pressure for federal jobs.
*Easy distribution of wage award and other government interventions.
*Reduce japa syndrome.
*Reduce hardship in the country.
*Create more attractive jobs for Nigerians.
*Ease labour dispute resolutions.
*Reduce incessant workers strike actions.
*Reduce multiple or redundant workers demand.
*Reduce workers pressure on state governors. Etc, etc
Let the executives and the legislative arms of the government make the necessary constitutional amendment for this to work.
This my suggestion
Bala sesughter.”
