{"id":6559,"date":"2025-08-21T20:48:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=6559"},"modified":"2025-08-21T20:48:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:48:27","slug":"salary-increase-lp-blasts-rmafc-boss-warns-against-proposed-salary-increase-for-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/08\/21\/salary-increase-lp-blasts-rmafc-boss-warns-against-proposed-salary-increase-for-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Salary Increase: LP Blasts RMAFC Boss …. Warns against Proposed Salary Increase for Politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Our Correspondent<\/div>\n
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Unhappy with the proposed salary increase for political office holders by\u00a0 Chairman of the Nigeria Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Mr. Mohammed Shehu, the Labour Party has condemned in strongest term what it described as the unsolicited campaign by the Commission.<\/div>\n
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This is contained in a statement issued to newsmen by the Interim National Publicly Secretary Prince Tony Akeni on Thursday in Abuja<\/div>\n
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The party noted that RMAFC boss Shehu\u00a0 by that proposal, insulted the intelligence of Nigerians by claiming that all Mr. President receives a paltry N18 million for his office in an entire year, as salary, which in his calculations,\u00a0 #1.5million per month, while his ministers receive #1 million per month or #12 million per annum.<\/div>\n
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This he said is a lie as denied report from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) showed that the President already live in affluence, beside his monthly salary.<\/div>\n
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Labour Party said it views the proposed Salary increase is not only unconscionable but insensitive, especially at this time when countless Nigerians are passing through untold economic hardship and deprivations, caused by corrupt ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) led Federal Government.<\/div>\n
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“Our party’s advice to the Chairman of the RMAFC and his unseen collaborators, in and outside the commission, who are behind this misadventure is that they should immediately retrace their steps in their best interest. This is so not incur the wrath of suffering Nigerians.<\/div>\n
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“Perhaps, the RMAFC, by the proposed increase, is encouraging Tinubu administration’s unquestionably borrowings and accumulation of foreign debt that have already mortgaged the future of the nation’s unborn generations.<\/div>\n
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“If anything, the campaign RMAFC should consider increase the minimum wage of the Nigerian workers from its present miserable sum of #70,000 per month, which even the United States government in a statement recently advocated for improvement. If a foreign nation could demonstrate such empathy towards our suffering citizens, the RMAFC’s chairman and commission members have no valid excuse not to do more”.<\/div>\n
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The LP urges fellow Nigerians to note that the fight to dismantle the structure of corruption in out country is not Peter Obi’s fight alone, or that Labour Party. It is the fight of all the 200 million Nigerians, a fight for our children children and generations unborn.<\/div>\n
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It pointed out that APC is burning down our country with never before seen corruption in virtually every sector of our economy.<\/div>\n
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The LP said that it takes a village to tie down a mad relative to give him medicine or put him in stocks for the safety of others.<\/div>\n
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It added that in 2027, let us rise together in communal unison as one people, irrespective of tribe, religion and region to see out of our land the wolf packs ravaging our flock, values and destiny as a great country.<\/div>\n
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By Our Correspondent Unhappy with the proposed salary increase for political office holders by\u00a0 Chairman of the Nigeria Revenue Mobilization, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Mr. Mohammed Shehu, the Labour Party has condemned in strongest term what it described as the unsolicited campaign by the Commission. This is contained in a statement issued to newsmen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1026,4186,4185,4184],"class_list":["post-6559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-campaign","tag-irresmzypective","tag-irrespective","tag-unsolicited"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6561,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6559\/revisions\/6561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}