The Chairman, Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, Mr. Mohammed Bello Shehu believes it is an anomaly for any public servant to earn salaries above that of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria or a Governor at the state level. In an exclusive interview with , he said his administration will initiate steps through stakeholders’ engagement to review the trend.
No, I don’t see that and we would always try to be as objective as possible but we feel that financial autonomy is key to that and as a commission, we don’t want to rely on what the federal government gives in the budget – this envelope system – we think we are going to work very hard to make sure that we have some level of financial independence.
So, the commission has done a lot and we are still doing that – with all the challenges that we face, the commission has done tremendously well and I think when we have that financial independence, the commission will do more, we would train the staff more and expose them to other parts of the world on how we can advise on getting more revenues for the federation.
So, I would want the National Assembly to really find a way to checkmate this by making the Constitution superior to the laws establishing government agencies – even if it means amending the laws of these organisations – and then make it mandatory for those big sharks like NCC, NIMASA, NPA, Shippers’ Council, as examples – to be remitting whatever they get directly to the federation account, and not to allow them free rein whereby they can be spending that money.
There had been growing public outcry and support for the review of the so-called “bogus” remuneration packages for politicians and other public officials amid fiscal challenges and widespread poverty in the country. Will your leadership attempt to assuage the concerns of Nigerians in this direction? So, if Nigerians are averse to that, they can call for a system whereby a proper institutional structure can be put in place. If you win the election, you have nothing to do with those people, you bring the aides and they enter into the payroll and they continue to do the work and when you lose elections, somebody comes in and also inherits that structure without a dime coming to you for that and you continue to get your things.
The country is broke as the government always say to us yet their salaries still remains the same..
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