Soldiers Criticise Presen t Administration For Not paying December Salaries To Celebrate Christmas. They continued by saying that the govern...
Soldiers Criticise Present Administration For Not paying December Salaries To Celebrate Christmas.
They continued by saying that the government had made them into vagrants who asked relatives and strangers for money so they could sustain their families.
The government of President Bola Tinubu has come under fire from Nigerian soldiers for neglecting to pay their paychecks in December, which they claim will make it harder to celebrate Christmas and New Year's festivities.
The military chiefs and President Tinubu were allegedly indifferent to the soldiers' situation.
They continued by saying that the government had made them into vagrants who asked relatives and strangers for money so they could sustain their families.
We all had a depressing time celebrating Christmas and New Year's. One of the troops said to SaharaReporters, "I can't even afford to buy clothes for my kids."
"Imagine, we Nigerian soldiers are set to celebrate Christmas and New Year without receiving salaries," a second soldier said. Our family are upset with us because they believe we don't want to fulfil our obligations, even though they are unaware that as of December 23rd, we had not been paid by the federal government.
The terrible aspect of the delay, he continued, was that the government did not think it appropriate to notify them of the reason why their salaries had not been paid on time.
We don't even know the motivations for this action, thus our morale and that of our families are very low. This is my first year celebrating Christmas without receiving pay since I enlisted in the Nigerian Army more than 27 years ago.
The Chief of the Army Staff and no NGO have offered any consolation for this regrettable situation, which does not make us happy. To be honest, this is really unsettling and concerning. To purchase clothing for their families and children, several troops were compelled to sell their belongings. This merely demonstrates the lack of hope left for the average person.
Then, a sergeant participating in a military operation in Northeastern Nigeria said, "You have to see how we patiently awaited our salaries on Friday, but the army authorities let us down without giving us reason.
Because our generals are dishonest and unable to represent us, we are directly pleading with the Nigerian government. They are not at all making things better.
There are no salaries to celebrate the holidays of Christmas and New Year, and the barracks are empty. The Nigerian Army's whole workforce has received their December salary. Because of the current economic hardship, our soldiers are suffering more than you may imagine.
Attempts to obtain a response or explanation from Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, the Director of Army Public Relations, were unsuccessful since he did not return calls. Moreover, he did not respond to messages left on his cell phone.
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