The Federal Government has rebuffed
request by some of the delegates to the ongoing national conference that
their personal aides be paid by the government.
Each of the delegates are to receive N12m for the three months exercise.
The allowance include money for
accommodation, transportation, part of feeding (the delegates are to
have free lunch at the venue of the conference.
However, the delegates are expected to
have aides such as drivers and personal assistants in order to ease
their works and movements.
However, investigations by one of...
our
correspondents showed that some of the delegates met in Abuja on Monday
shortly after the inauguration of the conference by President Goodluck
Jonathan where the welfare of their aides was discussed.
The delegates, it was gathered, wanted the Federal Government to take over the allowances of their aides.
While some of them at the informal
meeting said that the issue be raised during plenary, thinking that the
N12m was meant for them and not their aides, a few of them were said to
have disagreed.
One of the delegates, who was at the
meeting, confided in our correspondent that the organisers of the
conference ought to inform them about the number of aides they were to
employ and who would be responsible for their salaries.
Another delegate was said to have given
an example of the members of the National Assembly whose aides he said,
were being paid by the Federal Government.
“This does not affect the salaries and allowances of these lawmakers,” one of the delegates argued.
Culled - Punch
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