Coronavirus: PMB speaks on payment of salary to Civil Servants

President Muhammadu Buhari has charged the Federal Ministry of Finance and National Planning to ensure that salaries and allowances of civil servants are paid paid promptly.

President Buhari issued the directive on Thursday while meeting with members of the Presidential Committee on the review of the Impact of the dreaded Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic on the Economy, at the State House, Abuja.

While sumarising details of the meeting to State House Correspondents after the meeting, Chairman of the Committee and Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, said the President further directed that measures to protect the poor and the vulnerable are put in place.

She said the committee met with the President to update him on the developments instigated by the COVID-19 Pandemic globally and how much effect it has had on the nation’s economy.

Speaking on the directives issued at the meeting, the Finance Minister said besides ensuring prompt payment of civil servants’ salaries, the President ordered the protection of critical national assets.

“Well, he has directed that we should make sure that salaries are paid, make critical infrastructures like roads, rails are protected, as much as possible use local inputs so that we retain value within our economy. And also make sure that we have measures that protect the poor and the vulnerable.”