Some soldiers have penned down a letter to Buhari to stop the Nigerian Army from deducting some amounts of money from the meager salaries as it is affecting their standard of living.
SaharaReporters reported that the soldiers sent a save-our-souls message to Buhari following the Army’s intentions of deducting N15,000 to N49,000 from the salaries to pay for some “fraudulent Nigerian Army Welfare Housing Scheme”.
One sergeant, two Corporals, two Lance Corporals and one Private noted that Non-Commissioned Officers and the Senior Non-Commissioned Officers are struggling to feed their families and pay the school fees of their children with the scanty salaries.
Therefore, through this letter, they appeal to a reconsideration of the deductions by the army authorities.
The soldiers wrote, “On behalf of the entire Non-Commissioned Officers and the Senior Non-Commissioned Officers, we write to reject the proposed plan of the Nigerian Army to further increase their tempo in a way of continuous swindling and to put us and our families into persistent suffering of hunger and starvation.
“Putting into consideration the high rate of inflation in Nigeria market today, we the NCO and the SNCO are finding it difficult to feed our families and as well pay our children school fees from our meager salary. Yet, the Nigerian Army has devised a means of taking or collecting it back from us the Scarce Skill Allowance under the guise of a useless, fraudulent and so-called Nigerian Army Welfare Housing Scheme.
“It is pertinent to note that the army cannot exist or stand in the absence of the NCO and the SNCO, but the army can stand or exist and function effectively without the commissioned officers. This is to say that the SNCO and the NCO are the pillars of the Nigerian Army and without them the NA cannot exist and yet, they suffer the most.
“The NCO and the SNCO are not well paid and yet the army wants to deduct a whopping sum of N15,410, N16,703, N17,103, N21,516, N26,732, N30,000 and N49,986 on a monthly basis and according to the ranks respectively.