The National Salaries Incomes and Wages Commission said on Monday that it is not its responsibility to compute arrears of salaries, allowances and pensions of Federal Government workers.
The Acting Chairman of the commission, Mr Ekpo Nta, made the clarification via a statement in Abuja.
He explained that the clarification became necessary following calls and text messages by some unknown individuals to some workers and pensioners to contact an ‘unknown’ person in the commission over salary arrears and the others.
He explained further that the text messages requested that the affected persons should meet the unknown person in the commission, who was purportedly with their files, compiling and computing arrears of their salaries, allowances or pensions.
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Nta expressed concerns that some workers and pensioners could be defrauded in the process.
He explained that the commission only conveys to Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) approvals for implementation of revised salaries, allowances and pension.
“Where payment of arrears is involved, it is the MDAs that compute it for their workers; the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) computes arrears of pensions for pensioners where necessary,” he added.
Nta urged workers and pensioners to disregard such telephone calls and text messages and report same to law enforcement agencies.
