The Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) has provided an explanation of why the commission recommended a 114 percent increase in the basic pay for public office holders.
Hassan Mohammed Usman, a federal commissioner of the RMAFC, stated that although the remuneration review has been overdue since 2007, it hasn’t been completed for a variety of reasons.
Usman said this during a Thursday interview with Arise Television.
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.
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