LATEST NEWS>Protesting workers lock Finance Minister out of place of business

For a couple of hours, scores of protesting workers barricaded the headquarters of the Federal Ministry of Finance, stopping Mrs. Kemi Adeosun and different prime officers from entering their places of work as they protested over unpaid certain extra time Allowance.

The protesting workers had been drawn from the Ministry of Finance, workplace of the Accountant-basic of the Federation and the funds place of work of the Ministry of finances and countrywide Planning.

The workers, who stormed the ministry as early as 7a.M. And barricaded the gate of the ministry, demanded for the minister’s sack over what they described as her failure to pay their incredible N1.2 billion distinct additional time allowances.

With various inscriptions on placards accusing the minister of alleged insensitivity to their plight, they expressed displeasure over the manner she is managing the affairs of the ministry.
The indignant workers referred to as on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the minister.

It took the intervention and plea of some administration employees of the ministry before the workers dispersed to allow the minister and other high officers entry into the premises.

Nonetheless, in response to the protest, the ministry through its Director of understanding, Alhaji Salisu Na’Inna Dambata, mentioned: “The protests have no justifiable grounds.”

In a announcement, he mentioned: “The payment of what the protesting employees known as a exact overtime (SOT), used to be stopped with the aid of the last administration in 2014 on the bottom that it was no longer listed in any extant government round, fiscal laws or the general public service principles.

“The administration needs to state as follows: The cost of what the protesting employees called a SOT, was stopped by the final administration in 2014 on the ground that it was now not listed in any extant executive round, monetary rules or the public provider principles;

* The sum of N1.2 billion computed by way of the employees union for payment would no longer had been budgeted for in 2016 in the first location, no longer most effective considering the fact that of the paucity of money, but also the truth that the SOT allowance was once no longer part of the remuneration in the Federal Public carrier; and

* The Federal Ministry of Finance, the place of job of the Accountant-normal of the Federation and the price range workplace of the Ministry of budget and countrywide Planning, do not individually or jointly, owe any of their personnel their salaries.

“In view of the foregone, the management of the Federal Ministry of Finance wants to categorically state that the protests have no justifiable grounds,” the assertion concluded.

Despite the fact that the protesting staff later dispersed, they vowed to continue the protest except their allowance in question is paid