The Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (JNPSNC), has threatened to picket the office of the Accountant General of the Federation for allegedly cutting the salaries of federal workers and withholding payments owed to civil servants in the country.
In a strongly worded letter dated March 17, 2025, and signed by the JNPSNC National Secretary, Comrade Olowoyo Gbenga, the union warned that it would picket the AGF’s office on Wednesday, April 3, 2025, if the recent cuts and unpaid salaries of federal workers were not rectified.
In the letter, the union condemned the alleged underpayment of federal workers’ salaries for January and February 2025, claiming that workers have not received their full payment of minimum wage, 35% and 25% salary increments, wage awards, and associated arrears
The statement titled “Payment of six months arrears of N35,000 Wage Award,” and addressed to the Accountant General of the Federation, accused the government of misleading the public with false claims regarding salary payments.
“The attention of the National leadership of the Joint National Public Service Negotiating Council (JNPSNC) Trade Union Side has been drawn to a press release issued by the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation dated 7th March 2025, bordering on the mutilated payment of salaries of Federal Public Servants for the months of January and February 2025,” the letter reads.
“The claims by the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation are far from the truth.
‘Our scientific findings, through a comparative study of workers’ pay slips, show that the Federal Government only used media propaganda to push out unsubstantiated information.
“Without mincing words, failure on the part of the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation to do the needful by paying normal salaries in the month of March 2025 (and arrears of short payments that characterised the months of January and February 2025 salaries), workers will not hesitate to picket the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation in order to correct the unwarranted and unjustifiable salaries cut,” the letter warned.
