The Ninth Assembly Legislative Aides have protested  the long over due non payment of their entitlements

The group of legislative workers had long petitioned the National leadership which followed the setting up of a committee that recommended among other welfare packages the prompt payment of outstanding entitlements that had been captured in the budget.

But today the aides  who service the lawmakers laid siege at the lobby of the National Assembly , protesting

Leader of the group Zebis Prince, in protest letter, expressed worry over the actions of the CNA who has refused to pay he entitlements thereby taking the lawmakers and the National Assembly for granted

He explained that three weeks after  their compliant s were made, the Chief Accounting Officer of the National Assembly has chosen to hold Honourable members and by extension the whole institution to ransom by declining to meet their demands

According to him,  the prolonged refusal of the Clerk of the National Assembly (CNA) to pay about 2,500 Aides their 2019 salary arrears has created a sharp division between Aides on one hand and the Management on the other.

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He noted that in December, 2020, Aides under the auspices of” Salaries Arrears Affected Legislative Aides”‘ , had through a letter dated 13th December,2020,  notified the National Assembly Service  Commission, the Senate President, the Speaker, Sergeant-at-Arms, Department of State Services (DSS) and the National Assembly DPO ,of their intention to commence series of actions to protest their demands for the payment of their salary arrears.

Notwistanding the intervention of  the security agencies in the NASS, led by the Director of the DSS , the protest  however, disrupted resumption of plenary for sometime

The protest also has been suspended