Ex-aides sue communications minister over alleged unpaid salaries, allowances

- Communications minister, Adebayo Shittu, is in the news again for another controversy

- Two former aides of the Oyo state born politician have dragged him before the National Industrial Court (NIC) in Abuja

- The aides claim that the minister is owing them N21.5 million in salaries and allowances

Two former aides of communications minister, Adebayo Shittu on Tuesday, May 21, dragged the Oyo state born politician before the National Industrial Court (NIC) in Abuja for allegedly owing them N21.5 million in salaries and allowances.

Premium Times reports that the plaintiffs are the former personal assistant to the minister, Razaq Olubodun, and special assistant on media, Victor Oluwadamilare.

In their separate suits filed by their counsel, Adewale Lawal, the two prayed the court to order the minister to pay them the claim.

Olubodun, in his suit numbered NICN/Abj/132/2019, is seeking to recover N9.8 million from Shittu, being his salaries and allowances for 24 months. He said the federal government paid the money to the minister alongside his salaries.

Oluwadamilare in his suit, NICN/Abj/133/2019, is claiming N11.7million, being his alleged outstanding salaries and allowances for 28 months.

The duo had since resigned over the dispute bringing the number to seven, aides of the minister who have resigned due to issues bordering on nonpayment of salaries and allowances.

The two former aides are seeking a declaration of the court that the non-payment of full salaries and allowances for those periods was wrongful, illegal and unconstitutional.

They urged the court to order the minister to pay them according to the federal government directive for payment of aides to the ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The claimants are asking for an order on the defendant to pay N50million to each of them and to also pay them their full taxed costs of the prosecution of the suits.

While Olubodun claimed to have received just N1m all through his period of service from the minister, Oluwadamilare said he was paid thrice to the tune of N2.3million in his 28 months of service under Shittu.

They accused the minister of applying “intimidation, harassment, draconian and Machiavellian approach” and threats to take them to court, to ensure they are frustrated.

The claimants said they had been subjected to sufferings, ridicule, and untold hardship as a result of the denial of their rights by the minister.

No date has been fixed for hearing of the case in which the two claimants presented 35 and 40 statements of facts, respectively.

Meanwhile, a recent media report indicates that few days to President Muhammadu Buhari’s inauguration for a second term on May 29, ministers have intensified lobby to retain their appointments in the federal cabinet.

According to the report, about 70 percent of the current ministers are desperately lobbying to serve in the next cabinet.

Some of the ministers seeking to return to the cabinet are said to have abandoned their tasks and are busy chasing after close associates of the president to help them into the anticipated federal council.

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