This was disclosed to journalists after the TUC National Executive Council meeting in Abuja by Comrade Festus Osifo, TUC president stating that the civil servants only received the pay for the month of September.
It can be recalled that President Tinubu had in October 2023 announced the amount for Nigerian workers, beginning from September 1st to alleviate the hardship caused by fuel subsidy removal.
Osifo deemed the development unacceptable to Nigerian workers, noting that the government should eliminate bottlenecks in the N35,000 monthly wage award processes and promptly pay the workers their dues.
TUC also opposed the debt-to-revenue basis in the national budget submitted by the President to the National Assembly, asserting that the budget relied on a deficit not matched by national revenue. The congress argued that the government was borrowing excessively to finance its expenditure.
The congress urged the government to address the issue of tax revenue and reduce wasteful spending at all levels.
Osifo said, "Specifically, on the issue of a wage award, it is on record that a payment has been made just once. As we speak now, our members in the federal civil service have not received the wage award since October."
“We wish to call on government to fast track all the processes. We learned that they are currently putting some things in place to pay this money but our people are not ready to listen to excuses.
“We thank them for the once that they have done, but they have ceased doing it for a couple of months, so we call on government to remove all the bottlenecks that are being experienced today regarding the wage award and to continuously pay this sum.
“I will also wish to call out the respective state government to do the same. For the state governments that have agreed to pay the 35,000 Naira wage award, we say kudos to them.
