Staff of the Federal Ministry of Finance, Monday, picketed the ministry’s offices demanding the immediate removal of the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun by the President.
Huhuonline.com gathered that the workers took the action due to non-payment of their allowances, which amounted to N1.2 billion.
The workers accused Adeosun of collecting her own allowances without any consideration for theirs.
One of such allowances, they alleged, was the N30 million for house rent annually.
They equally said she was high handed.
However, ministry hierarchy said the protest was unwarranted.
Mahmud Isa-Dutse, Permanent Secretary, FMF, said, the N1.2 billion was an illegal payment that the workers have been receiving at the beginning of the year before now.
The money is said not to be captured in the Ministry’s 2016 Budget, hence Adeosun’s position not to pay the staff the sum, he explained.
