As the national assembly resumed
from recess on Tuesday, aides of lawmakers staged a protest over their unpaid
allowances.
The aides, under the aegis of
National Assembly Legislative Aides Forum (NASSLAF), took over the lobby of the
assembly from which the upper and the lower legislative chambers can be
accessed.
They displayed placards with
inscriptions which read ‘Lack is killing aides S.O.S’ , ‘Omolori pay us our
money’.
Speaking with journalists,
Nyakari-Abasi Etuk, president of NASSLAF, said they did not have issues of
payment of allowances under the last leadership of the assembly.
He said most of the aides could
not meet basic needs of their family.
Etuk lamented that six months to
the end of the assembly, there is no talk about severance packages.
“Some of us they are owing us up
to one point something million and these are funds we use to go on errands and
other miscellaneous things. The last leadership of the national assembly paid
us up to date,” he said
“We are not talking about
training, the issue of training is also there, we are supposed to have four
trainings in a year. Ever since we started we have not had training. The
training that we had was sponsored by the national assembly service commission.
All we are asking for is our entitlements.
“We have tried we are calling on
the leadership – so we are telling the world that they are owing us, they are
taking us to the point where we have to address everybody. This is our plight
this is our concern, we are telling everybody – today is the resumption date –
most of the aides, some have died, some don’t have money to send their children
to school.
“The leadership as a matter of
urgency – we are calling on the leadership to ensure that our allowances, to
ensure we collect our duty tour allowances.
“Every year, allocations and
budget are given to the national assembly which captures the legislative aides.
So all we are saying, all we are asking for is for them to pay us.”
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