As section of intervention plans to reduce the outcomes of the discontinuance of petroleum subsidy as announced on May 29, 2023, the National Economic Council said on Thursday in Abuja that it had taken into consideration guidelines from the National Salaries Income and Wages Commission to pay N702 billion as fee of dwelling allowance to civil servants.
Bala Mohammed, the governor of Bauchi State, published this to reporters from the State House rapidly after the first meeting of the National Economic Council on Thursday at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa.
Mohammed further disclosed that the intervention endorsed a monthly petroleum allowance for civil servants of between N23.5 billion to N45 billion.
The statement on Thursday came simply two weeks after President Bola Tinubu ordered the governors to assemble a number of palliative constructions to lessen the hardship precipitated by using the suspension of the petrol subsidy.
“The NEC had received pointers on the quite a number approaches and capability that the country can use anything increases that we have in the revenue to mitigate the influence that this is going to make on the lives of our workers.
“And so they recommended that there have to be a consequential adjustment, estimated at N702.92bn as part of the allowances that ought to be given as petroleum allowance to all workers and as nicely as a N23bn or N25bn monthly provide to cushion the effect on workers,” he said.
The returning governor said the council obtained different hints to evaluation salaries and wages.