The nationwide chairman of the Social Democratic Get together, SDP, Alhaji Shehu Musa Gabam, has referred to as on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to unify the salaries of civil servants within the nation.
Gabam mentioned this, questioning why mother and father ought to pay as a lot as N3,000,000 to get their youngsters jobs in some companies after struggling to coach them even as much as the college degree.
Moreover, he mentioned that civil servants in some federal companies obtain juicy salaries, whereas others are paid much less regardless of working for a similar authorities.
Gabam spoke in Abuja on Monday in the course of the commemoration of the Worldwide Youth Day Celebration 2024 by the Social Democratic Get together, SDP.
“Folks in authorities institutions acquire cash as much as one, two, three million naira for somebody to get employed,” he mentioned.
“That’s the sort of barbarism we’re going by way of. Some mother and father promote properties to coach their youngsters and now, when it’s time for the youngsters to maintain them, the mother and father have to promote one thing to get them employed.
“There’s no higher disservice than this. I want President Bola Tinubu may fish out these ministries and parastatals that they referred to as ‘juicy.’ From the decimation of salaries, individuals working in NNPCL and NPA would look superior to individuals working within the Ministry of Data and different Nigerians.
“And these are authorities companies, ministries and parastatals, however they discriminate even on the wage scale and we predict they’re doing the proper factor.
“It could possibly by no means be proper till the federal government unifies all salaries. Mother and father shouldn’t be struggling to get their youngsters into NNPCL, FIRS, Maritime or NPA due to the wage.”
He additional mentioned: “Each ministry must be a juicy ministry. It relies on who’s there. It’s not concerning the workplace however who’s there. We’ve lazy individuals who don’t have any expertise of being even councillors being appointed as ministers, they usually’re experimenting on the seat of the ministry. You need to struggle on your rights. “