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Why we deducted our officials’ salaries – NSCDC explains

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The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has revealed there were deductions in the January salaries of some of its personnel as a result of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System.

 

On Sunday, the NSCDC said the deductions were to recover “the funds overpaid to some personnel in December 2019 due to system error,” noting that the decutions were not from the corps, but from the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation.

The corps in a release by its spokesperson, Okeh Emmanuel, said, “It is therefore improper for some aggrieved personnel who felt shortchanged due to some deductions in their salary to accuse the corps of tampering with their salaries.”

 

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence corps is a para-military institution that was established in May 1967 by the Federal Republic of Nigeria, with the act of National Assembly. The act was amended in 2007, to enhance the statutory duties of the corp.

 

The Corps is empowered to institute legal proceedings by or in then and of the Attorney General of the Federation in accordance with the provisions of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria against any person or persons suspected to have committed an offence, maintain an armed squad in order to bear fire arms among others to strengthen the corps in the discharge of its statutory duties.

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