Civil Servants praise present administration for restoring Gratuity back to retirees.

By Afolabi Oyekunle.

Federal Civil Servants are full of gratuity to the present administration, in particular President Bola Tinubu, for restoring back gratuity for retiring Civil Servants.

The Federal Secretariat, Abuja, was today agog as news filtered to thousands of Civil Servants that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has restored payment of gratuity to Federal Civil Servants.

In a Press Statement issued in Abuja today, the National President of Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), Comrade Shehu Mohammed, and the Secretary-General, Comrade Joshua Apebo, commended President Tinubu and the Federal Executive Council for listening to the cries of thousands of Federal Civil Servants by approving the Exit Benefit Scheme that grants retiring Federal Civil Servants a gratuity equal to 100% of their total annual emolument.

“We are really glad that after decades of struggles by the Union to ensure that Federal Civil Servants who have served the country for 35 years or attained 60 years of age whichever comes first can now be rewarded as it used to be in past.

ASCSN

“We wish to recall that gratuity to Federal Civil Servants was stopped when the Pension Reforms Act 2004 was enacted even though the Act did not expressly abolish payment of gratuity,” the Union stated.

According to the Labour Leaders, since 2004 the Association had sent several memoranda to Council, wrote series of letters to the Government and on 19th August 2022, when the then National Leadership of the Association paid a Courtesy Visit to President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, the issue was brought to his attention and he promised to work towards the restoration of gratuity.

“We look forward to the implementation of the new gratuity scheme to Federal Civil Servants from January 2026 as President Tinubu has directed so that the morale of Civil Servants can be further boosted.”

“We assure our teeming members that we will monitor the development closely and ensure that it is implemented accordingly,” the Union emphasised.

The Labour Leaders posited that gratuity is a monetary benefit given by an employer to his or her employee at the time of retirement without any contribution made by the worker which can be used for post-retirement ventures.

They added that payment of gratuity is predicted in the concept that those who have laboured for public and private organisations for decades are entitled to the Proverbial “golden handshake” from their employers for their mental and physical exertions during the course of their services.

Comrade Shehu Mohammed Joshua Apebo

National President Secretary-General

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