Tinubu’s reforms sentencing Nigerians to death, Federal Workers cry out

Federal Workers Forum (FWF), have vowed to pass a vote of no confidence on President Bola Tinubu, if the hardship being experienced by Nigerians persists.

FWF stated this in a statement signed by its National Coordinator and ormer Chairman Oyo State TUC, Comrade Andrew Emelieze, adding that the forum would not hesitate to lead an unending protest against president if the suffering continues.

“We are citizens, we are not slaves, we urge you to end this sufferings, return subsidy on petroleum products and reverse the pump price of petrol. We are also calling for the immediate cessation of the delibrate devaluation of our national currency.”

According to Emelieze, President Tinubu may be unaware of the true pictures of the real situation in Nigeria, as the situation at hand is really bad, worrisome and disturbing.

“Nigerians are dying of hunger. The tough and hard policies you are making has brought untold hardship to the Nigerian people.

“Our people are now stranded everywhere, almost everybody is now a beggar. The Nigerian daily existence is now a struggle for survival. It is as if our people have been ambushed since the removal of subsidy on petrol. It has been tales of lamentations everywhere and things have really fallen apart.

“It is so bad that many more citizens are contemplating suicide , just as suicide rate is more than ever before. This your hard and tough decisions have proven to be very harsh, hostile and rash. Sir your policies/reforms is sentencing Nigerians to death, your policies are tantamount to capital punishment,” said Emelieze.

Emelieze stressed that Federal workers are dying in silence, as petrol price of which was initially at ₦187 on assumption of office by Mr President has gone up to ₦1300 and nothing reasonable is being done to assist the workers to combat the debilitating effects of your hard reforms.

He emphasised that the ₦35,000 wage award, palliatives given to federal workers was stopped abruptly only after six months of undulating payments in the month of February, while five months wage award is still owed the federal workers.

He explained that the new national minimum wage paid last September shows that only ₦40,000 is added to the salaries of all federal workers across all levels.

“To us as federal workers, we see the consequential adjustments to the new national minimum wage as inconsequential. What has been down is the extending of the earlier wage award of ₦35,000 upgraded to ₦40,000. To us as workers, we feel cheated, this is exploitation of the vulnerable, the federal government is not being fair to the workers.

“How can the price of petrol be increased by over 600% and just ₦40.000 is added to the salaries of workers. We the workers feel that we have been defrauded . We are just wondering the essence of the tripartite committee set up for months to review the new national minimum wage. Moreso that ₦70,000 is not a living wage and some states of the federation have promised to pay more than that.

“Mr President Sir, we want to believe you are not aware that all the calculations for wage adjustment amounts to ₦40,000 to all workers including that of our Directors. This to us is unlike the civil service calculus and bureaucracy. We the federal workers are badly demoralised and are not happy as our living conditions continues to deteriorate, as we are daily faced with increasing cost of living crisis.

“Sir it is most unfortunate that despite the harsh economy, the federal government is still owing the poorly paid workers that are already struggling with survival. Government is owing years of promotion arrears, backlog of duty tour allowances (DTA) , eight months of 25/35% increments, five months of wage award, arrears of the new national minimum wage, earned allowances of federal tertiary institutions (FTI), hazzard/uniform allowances of military and paramilitary officers and many more arrears owed the federal workers and the pensioners,” he stated.

The Forum urge Mr President to personally intervene in the plight of the federal workers, re-
evaluate the new national minimum wage of ₦70,000.

” Reevaluate the new national minimum wage, this to us is ridiculous and should be a national embarrassment and a disgrace. Federal government workers have been financially embarrassed.

“We therefore reject ₦40,000 added to our monthly take home as the new national minimum wage. We urge the federal government to urgently fashion out radical moves to immediately tackle the rising cost of food stuff and other goods and services. It is also imperative for government to open up the borders and allow for imported food to flood our markets. We demand the payment of 30% of our monthly pay as cost of living allowance (COLA) to all federal workers pending the resolution of this economic crisis. We request that our payslip state explicitly the break down of our monthly salary/allowances and that salary payment should not be delayed again.We are also calling for the return of payment of leave bonus to all federal workers and the removal of tax on our allowances.

“Mr President Sir , we are urgently waiting for your immediate response as the federal workers cannot cope again with the prevailing hardship. We have endured this pains enough, it is time for you to act and rescue the federal workers and the Nigerian people from this mass hunger.We are expecting positive response from you, if the contrary, then we will not hesitate to fight for our survival. We believe actions can be taken and all our backlog of arrears cleared within the next fourteen days. Else , we shall be left with no other option other than to cry out.”

The Forum called on Mr. President, to inline with promise of the renewed hope take the FWF humble appeal in good fate and act accordingly, noting that judicial officers across all levels have just been given a 300% pay rise.

He further argued that it won’t be out of place to do same to other federal workers instead of the meagre ₦40,000 added to all federal workers as the new national minimum wage.

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