The Office of the Accountant General has reacted to the allegations of the opposition party PDP that the salaries of Federal Civil Servants have not been paid.
The Office also noted that civil servants would receive their wage awards as soon as possible.
In a statement on Saturday, spokesperson for the PDP, Debo Ologunagba, said the development was “insensitive and unacceptable”.
Ologunagba had accused Tinubu’s administration of turning the country into a “huge internally displaced persons camp with millions of Nigerians becoming beggars and observing the period of hunger, anguish and misery”.
“It is obvious that the non-payment of the December salary critically needed by the workers, including our gallant security operatives at this period, is consistent with the atrocious character of the APC administration to weaponize poverty and further suppress Nigerians to surrender to totalitarianism,” the statement reads.
The PDP described the situation as a “heartless act by the anti-people APC administration”, saying it “never happened in the 16 years of the PDP in government”.
Reacting in an interview with newsmen in Abuja, the spokesperson for the Office of the Accountant General, Bawa Mokwa, said the salaries of civil servants had been paid.
Bawa said, “The salaries have been paid. People have started getting their salaries from last Friday. Most people got it the day before yesterday. Check with the Ministries, Departments and Agencies. Confirm with them; salaries have been paid.”
On the issue of the wage award, he said, “The wage award will come after the salaries.”
Also speaking with our correspondent, a top civil servant in a Federal Government ministry confirmed the development, “Yes, salaries have been paid. I received mine on Friday, but the wage award was not included.”
Meanwhile, the All Progressives Congress has dismissed the allegation of insensitivity made by the PDP against the Federal Government, saying the reported delay in payment of December salary for civil servants might be attributed to a glitch in the system.
The ruling party also warned the PDP to desist from making unfounded claims and destructive criticism that would not lead the country to anywhere.
The Deputy National Organising Secretary of the APC, Nze Chidi Duru, chided the PDP, stressing that it was not everything any serious opposition party should play politics with.
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