Kings’ College: Ministry assures payment of delayed salaries of staff members

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Kings’ College: Ministry assures payment of delayed salaries of staff members

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 An appeal from the Federal Ministry of Education was directed towards the staff of King’s College, Lagos to exercise patience, as the government finds a lasting solution to irregularities in payment of salaries. Mrs Priscilla, who is the Director, Press and Public Relations of the ministry, made the plea in a telephone interview with media men on Monday in Lagos. She revealed the ministry’s effort at ensuring a prompt resolution of salary issues, as media reports detailed the actions of Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), King’s College chapter, on March 27 were involved in a week warning strike over non-payment of salaries of members. According to chairman of the association, Mr Jude Uche, the association was demanding the payment of February and March salaries. “The same thing happened in 2016 when members of staff of the college were owed salaries from February to September,’’ Uche said, while speaking to newsmen. The delay in payment of salaries of members, according to him, has been allowed to stay for too long, without any willingness to address it. “Before now, we were told of a mix-up from the Budget and Planning Office and the Federal Ministry of Finance. “We learnt that last year, instead of paying N409 million as salaries for the entire year, only N37 million was captured in the budget, which was grossly inadequate’’. Uche maintained that similar situation was experienced in 2017 budget, whereby N164 million was documented as against N409 million. “Even with the N164 million, after all deductions, the money was reduced to N144 million’’. The chairman lamented on the situation, necessitated by the reduction, which is making life unbearable for members of the association. On the other hand, Ihuoma remarked the ministry’s concern about the issue and had been doing the needful to facilitate payment of the salaries. “The Federal Ministry of Education has written to its Finance counterpart for a solution to the problem. “We are also monitoring development and we will like to assure that with machinery put in place by the ministry over the salary issue, there will soon be a headway,’’ she assured. Ihuoma disclaimed the speculations of conducting another test for candidates seeking admission into the JSS 1 arm of the 104 Unity colleges across the country, stating that the process is closed for the year. It was reported that on April 8 about 78,378 pupils sat for the 2017 National Common Entrance Examination (NCEE), supervised by the National Examinations Council (NECO) across the country.

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