The Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun has addressed the ongoing protest by workers of the Ministry of Finance over non payment of allowance estimated to be about N1.2 billion.
Responding to the protest, the Finance Minister noted that the days of paying special allowances to civil servants are far behind.
Kemi Adeosun, speaking today in Abuja said: “When I said at the start of my tenure that I would restore fiscal responsibility to our economy, it was no idle promise. The money we spend is not our money, it belongs to the Nigerian people.
“We need to justify every naira and at a time when all Nigerians are suffering the consequences of the financial crisis inherited from previous administrations, we simply cannot afford to pay out special bonuses to civil servants. Those days are gone.”
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