Tinubu, Shettima, govs, judges, others to get 114% salary increase — RMAFC
•CSOs oppose salary increase for elected public officials, others •Raise minimum wage of poor workers first, says Shehu Sani CHAIRMAN of the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC, Muhammad Shehu, has said the salaries of politicians, judicial and public office holders would be increased by 114 per cent. Shehu, according to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, spoke on Tuesday while presenting the reports of the reviewed remuneration package to Kebbi State Governor Nasir Idris. But the development drew the ire of civil society organisations, CSOs, law lecturer and Senator Shehu Sani, who argued that the ordinary worker, whose take-home pay was nothing to write home about was the one that deserved such wage increment and not politicians. The RMAFC Chairman, who was represented by a federal commissioner in the commission, Rakiya Tanko-Ayuba, said the implementation of the reviewed remuneration packages was effective from January 1, 2023. He said the move was in accord...