The Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) has concluded arrangements to start the process for carrying out the review of the remuneration for political, public and judicial office holders in Nigeria.
Mohammed Shehu, chairman of the commission stated this during a recent courtesy visit to Aminu Tambuwal, governor of Sokoto State, who is also chairman, the Nigerian Governors Forum.
Shehu pointed out that paragraph 32(D) of part 1 to the third schedule of 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended, empowers RMAFC to determine the remuneration appropriate to political, public and judicial office holders in the country.
He recalled that the last time a salary review was carried out was 2008 which makes it even overdue for review.
Tambuwal in his remarks said that RMAFC as one of the constitutional bodies in the country has been underfunded over the years thereby making it difficult for the Commission to function properly in monitoring all the revenue accruals into and from the revenue account noting that the Commission should rather be funded on a first line charge.
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“This will possibly help the Commission go into digital monitoring and tracking of all accruable revenues into the Federation account thereby increasing revenues for sharing among the three tiers of government,” he said.
He also congratulated Shehu on his new appointment as RMAFC Chairman and applauded the readiness of RMAFC to commence the process for the review of remuneration exercise while pointing out that the salaries of Judges in the country particularly is one of the least in public service.
The RMAFC chairman in response promised to produce fair and credible remuneration for the affected officers before the end of this present administration.
