National Assembly Legislative Aides have threatened to picket the legislature starting from today, Monday over the non-payment of their 2019 unpaid salary arrears and allowances.
They resolved to ground all activities at the Assembly to press home their demands, as they decried the series of alleged infractions perpetrated by the National Assembly Management.
The group Coordinator, Salary Arrears Affected Legislative Aides, Zebis Prince, stated this in a statement in Abuja, co-signed by five other colleagues. They maintained that they were being owed 3.1 billion naira, comprising 1.35 billion naira in salary arrears and 1.75 billion naira for consequential adjustment on minimum wage.
According to them, while over 1,300 aides were still being owed salary arrears, none of the 2,345 legislative aides has received the consequential adjustment on minimum wage, since their appointments in June 2019.
The group alleged that the Clerk of the National Assembly, Amos Ojo, had disobeyed a resolution passed by the House of Representatives mandating him to pay the arrears.
Reacting to the development, the Clerk of the National Assembly, Ojo Adetunji said the management of the national assembly had since met with the leadership of the group.
