The National Assembly Legislative Aides Forum, led by Comrade Sam Melaye have given the National Assembly Commission a one week Ultimatum to pay all the arrears owned them by the commission, else shut down the National Assembly.
This came out as one of the resolutions at the end of today's protest by the members of the Forum of National Assembly Legislative Staff (NASSLAF).
Earlier today, the men of the DSS invited the Chairman of the forum for interrogation and later released him.
The aides who have sworn to shut down the complex if the commission fails to pay their allowances and entitlements due to them which run into over N2.5billion at the expiration of the one week Ultimatum.
The legislative aides are already nursing the fear of a denial of their dues by the commission. “If our allowances are not paid what is our hope that our severance would also be paid: We were told by the legislative aides of the seventh Assembly that their own severance was not fully paid and we do not want to be victims, so we call on relevant authority to be aware of our plight and hardship. We will reject it if our severance entitlements are not paid in full as stipulated in the rules,” this was contained in their letter.
“We once more call on the federal government to intervene and give us our dues. We came on board on the 9th of June, 2015. A DTA is for three months; so from June 2015 to August 2018 in total is 13 DTAs and the management has only paid just four half half. Because in January 2018 we were paid N40,000 instead of N74,000; so going by our calculation we have outstanding of 10 DTA, they said.
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