The Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) has dismissed media report (not in News Central) that it approved the increment of salaries of political office holders, judicial and public office holders by 114 percent.
The RMAFC Public Relations Officer, Christian Nwachukwu, said President Bola Tinubu has not given approval for the increment of salaries of public servants.
During the presentation of the reviewed remuneration package reports to Kebbi State Governor, Nasir Idris, in Birnin Kebbi, on Tuesday, Rakiya Tanko-Ayuba, who represented RMAFC chairman Mohammad Shehu, made a statement regarding salary increments. However, the Commission’s spokesperson strongly denied Tanko-Ayuba’s claim that the implementation of the reviewed remuneration packages would be effective from January 1, 2023.
“Not my chairman. Not my chairman. My chairman has never made any statement on it. And I have not made any statement on it. No statement from chairman, no statement from me. So, I don’t know. I heard one of the Commissioners said it. I don’t want to be quoted,” the RMAFC spokesperson told our Correspondent while denying the Commissioner’s assertion.
“No approval yet. There is no approval yet. I don’t know the source of that story. Everything is under process. It has to come as a Bill for Mr President to assent.
“The President has not given assent. Until the President gives assent, you cannot take it as if it has taken effect. You know that. You are a journalist.
“I don’t want to be quoted wrongly. The President has not given assent to it. It is still under the process,” Nwachukwu said over a phone chat with this writer.
Asked if the National Assembly has begun work on the proposal, he said: “it will be sent to National Assembly. Whichever way, whether it has been sent or not, the President has not assented to it. All those legislative processes has to be completed; finally, it will land on Mr President’s table for assent. That has not been completed.”
Probed further whether the RMAFC has sent the executive bill through FEC to the National Assembly for deliberation, Nwachukwu simply said: “everything is under the process.”