The President Muhammadu Buhari-led government has again reassured federal civil servants of its commitment to harmonize their salaries before the end of 2021.
Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan stated this on Tuesday at the Head of Service physical engagement/ interview session with the African Initiative for Governance (AIG), on public service leaders’ programme, which held in Abuja.
Yemi-Esan said the huge gulf in the salary scale of the public service needs to be addressed as quickly as possible.
She said: ” A lot of work is being done on salaries. I chair a Presidential committee on harmonization of salaries in the public service. And actually it takes a lot of work.
“It’s unfortunate that the differences are quite wide, and that’s the problem the committee is having right now. It might not be possible to bring those that are high there, down.
She said: ” A lot of work is being done on salaries. I chair a Presidential committee on harmonization of salaries in the public service. And actually it takes a lot of work.
“It’s unfortunate that the differences are quite wide, and that’s the problem the committee is having right now. It might not be possible to bring those that are high there, down.
“The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Labour and Employment are also members of the committee.
“The good thing about this is that we all agree that something must be done about it especially those that are core civil servants, that earned the lowest salaries.
“I think we all agreed on that. My prayer is really that by the end of the year, we would have come to the conclusion,” she added
