National chairman of the Nigerian Institution of Highway and Transportation Engineers, Engr Saidu Hassan, has asked the National Assembly (NASS) to review the
Recently, the federal government said it would stop the funding of at least 30 of the professional bodies and councils by December 2024 whilst budgetary allocations would be stopped for other bodies by December 2026.
Saidu told LEADERSHIP that the move would affect the professional bodies/councils in their budgetary plan. “When policies are taken, there are consequences of those actions, because there are people that work there through government establishments. They are under normal civil service protection law, and all of a sudden you said you’re going to remove funding from those systems, so what will be the fate of those people?
“So will they give them an option because some of them may either come there for secondment from some ministries. I’m just giving an example. Okay, in some circumstances now, will they give them an option to go back to the ministries and give them another condition of service.
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