Why We Recommended 114% Salary Increase For Public Officers- RMFAC

The Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) has explained why the commission recommended that the basic salary of public office holders be increased by 114 per cent.

Hassan Mohammed Usman, a federal commissioner of the commission noted that the remuneration review had been due since 2007, but has not been done for some reasons.

Usman stated this while speaking in a television interview on Thursday.

He stated, “This is to say that, for 15 years, the salaries for the political, judicial and public office holders have not been reviewed.”

According to Usman, the review was premised on the fact that the consumer price index, from the year 2008 to 2022, has increased scientifically by 371 per cent.

The RMAFC federal commissioner said, “We engaged in public hearings, we went to all geopolitical zones, we had consultations with the stakeholders, the government and the private sector, hearing and harnessing views on what increment within these years.

“These indices, the public hearing, which is subjective, and then the scientific one, the consumer price index, which is objective were combined, aggregated and it ran up to over 200 per cent.

“So, based on that, the view of the economic situation in the country, we aggregated the two and we arrived at 114 per cent,” he said.

Recall that the commission had urged the 36 states’ Houses of Assembly to hasten efforts on amendment of relevant laws to give room for upward review of remuneration packages for political, judicial and public officers.