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By David Odama
National Assembly workers under the aegis of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria, PASAN, are set for a showdown with the management over unresolved welfare and constitutional issues affecting their members.
Specifically, the aggrieved workers expressed disappointment at what they described as the refusal of the authorities to attend to their long-standing welfare demands, which they stated include the correction of salary shortfalls, remittance of statutory deductions such as taxes, pensions and the National Housing Fund, full implementation of the Consolidated Legislative Salary Structure and the financial provisions of the Conditions of Service, as well as allowances relating to rent subsidy, leave, hazard and medicals.
They also called for the implementation of the 40 percent consolidated peculiar allowance approved in 2023 for federal workers, provision of official vehicles for directorate cadre staff, staff buses for junior cadres, the establishment of training templates, implementation of the National Assembly Service Pension Board (Establishment) Act, 2023, and the immediate application of the new minimum wage and its consequential adjustments.
The aggrieved workers, have therefore, threatened to embark on picketing once the National Assembly resumes plenary on Tuesday.
In a letter, dated October 3, 2025 and addressed to the Clerk to the National Assembly, CNA, they accused the management of intimidation and harassment of staff who have continued to demand rule-driven unionism anchored on the provisions of the PASAN Constitution, 2015.
The workers, in the letter, signed by Messrs M.C Odo, Yusuf Mohammed Abiola and Chinenye Peace Nda, alleged that some of them were being queried and threatened with suspension for their participation in union activities, particularly their insistence on the presentation of audited accounts of the chapter to congress, as stipulated in the union’s constitution.
According to them, the PASAN Constitution mandates executive officers at both national and chapter levels to prepare annual budgets, circulate audited accounts and balance sheets, present financial proposals to congress, and ensure compliance with the laws of the country.
They argued that these provisions make accountability an obligation that must be upheld in the management of the chapter’s affairs.
The aggrieved workers also expressed concerns over management’s decision to recognise the authority of executive officers earlier removed by the congress, insisting that such actions undermine internal democracy and due process within the union.
The matter, according to them goes beyond leadership tussles, as it touches on the wider principle of financial transparency and respect for constitutional provisions.
