Houses Of Assembly To Amend Laws To Raise Political Office Holders, Judicial Officers’ Remuneration
The Revenue Mobilization and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) has asked the 36 state Houses of Assembly , to start amending the relevant laws, for an upward adjustment of the remuneration of public, political and judicial officers in their respective states.
The commission chairman, Alhaji Muhammadu Shehu, made the call while presenting the report of the review of the remuneration adjustment to governor Nasir Idris, at the Kebbi state government house in Benin kebbi.
According to him, beneficiaries from the new remuneration, included the president, vice president, governors, deputy governors, ministers, special advisers, commissioners, legislators and judicial officers
Shehu said the implementation of the reviewed remuneration packages was effective from January 1, 2023, adding that the move was in accordance with the provision of paragraph 32(d) of part 1 of the Third Schedule of the 1999 constitution of the federal government (as amended).
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He said the last remuneration review was conducted in 2007, noting that it culminated in the “certain political, public and judicial office holders (salaries and allowances, etc) (Amendment) Act, 2008”.
Shehu said, “It empowers the revenue mobilisation, allocation and fiscal commission to determine the remuneration appropriate for political office holders, including the president, vice-president, governors, deputy governors, ministers, commissioners, special advisers, legislators and the holders of the offices mentioned in sections 84 and 124 of the constitution of the federal government.
“Sixteen years after the last review, it is imperative that the remuneration packages for the categories of the office holders mentioned in relevant sections of the 1999 constitution (as amended) should be reviewed.
“Pursuant to the above, your excellency may please recall that on Wednesday, 1st February, 2023, the commission held a one-day zonal public hearing on the review of the remuneration package simultaneously in all the six (6) geo-political zones of the country. The aim of the exercise was to harvest inputs/ideas from a broad spectrum of stakeholders.”
He said the commission had objectively and subjectively reviewed the salary packages in the reports, adding that it adheres to the rules of equity and fairness, risk and responsibilities, national order of precedence among others.
“The subjective criteria reflected the various expression by stakeholders through memoranda received, opinion expressed during the zonal public hearings and responses to questionnaires administered.
“The objectives of the criteria were obtained from analysis of macro-economic variables particularly the Consumer Price Index (CPI),” he noted.
