National Assembly: Legislative aides protest over unpaid allowance, faults Saraki, Dogara
staged a protest against their unpaid allowances as the National
Assembly resumed plenary.
The legislative aides staged the protest at the lobby of the Assembly
complex from which the Senate and House of Representatives can be
accessed.
The aggrieved aides yielded placards with inscriptions, 'Lack is
killing aides S.O.S', 'Omolori pay us our money'.
Speaking with journalists, the body's President,Nyakari-Abasi Etuk
lamented the non-payment of their allowances under the current
leadership.
Etuk said they never had issues of payment of allowances under the
last leadership of the Assembly.
He said, "Some of us they are owing us up to one point something
million and these are funds we use to go on errands and other
miscellaneous things. The last leadership of the national assembly
paid us up to date.
"We are not talking about training, the issue of training is also
there, we are supposed to have four trainings in a year. Ever since we
started we have not had training. The training that we had was
sponsored by the national assembly service commission. All we are
asking for is our entitlements.
"We have tried we are calling on the leadership – so we are telling
the world that they are owing us, they are taking us to the point
where we have to address everybody. This is our plight this is our
concern, we are telling everybody – today is the resumption date –
most of the aides, some have died, some don't have money to send their
children to school.
"The leadership as a matter of urgency – we are calling on the
leadership to ensure that our allowances, to ensure we collect our
duty tour allowances.
"Every year, allocations and budget are given to the national assembly
which captures the legislative aides. So all we are saying, all we are
asking for is for them to pay us."
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