National Assembly Management Warns Staff Against Protest As Plenary Resumes Tuesday

The absorption of the National Assembly has cautioned aggrieved parliamentary workers against carrying retired their planned protestation and picketing of the analyzable arsenic lawmakers resume plenary connected Tuesday.

The informing followed threats by immoderate members of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria to embark connected concern enactment implicit alleged unresolved payment and law issues affecting staff.

In a circular issued connected Sunday by the Secretary, Human Resources and Staff Development, Essien Eyo Essien, connected behalf of the Clerk to the National Assembly, Kamoru Ogunlana, the absorption warned that immoderate effort to disrupt legislative activities would pull terrible disciplinary measures.

Essien stated, “It indispensable beryllium emphasised that rank of PASAN oregon immoderate national is wholly voluntary. Any unit member, whether an enforcement oregon regular member, who is dissatisfied with the behaviour of national affairs whitethorn freely retreat their rank successful accordance with established rules.”

He explained that wrong 7 months of assuming office, the existent absorption had embarked connected respective administrative reforms aimed astatine improving ratio and boosting unit morale.

Essien further warned, “In airy of caller developments, the absorption hereby instructs each unit to disregard immoderate calls for concern action, including ‘work-to-rule’ oregon ‘unlawful picketing’.

“Your information and information wrong the National Assembly Complex are assured, and we impulse you to proceed with your authoritative duties without immoderate fearfulness oregon intimidation.”

He directed the professed “Concerned PASAN Members” to desist from their planned protest, saying immoderate defiance would pb to “severe disciplinary action.”

The circular added, “Finally, the absorption remains committed to transparency, accountability, and the wide well-being of staff.”

The informing came connected the heels of a missive by immoderate “Concerned PASAN Members” dated October 3, 2025, and addressed to the Clerk of the National Assembly, accusing absorption of harassment and intimidation of national members demanding transparency and adherence to the PASAN Constitution (2015).

The petition, jointly signed by M.C. Odo, Yusuf Mohammed Abiola, and Chinenye Peace Nda, alleged that workers were being queried and threatened with suspension for insisting connected the presumption of audited accounts to the legislature arsenic required by the union’s constitution.

They cited law provisions mandating national executives to hole yearly budgets, circulate audited accounts and equilibrium sheets, and guarantee compliance with statutory fiscal obligations—arguing that management’s interference undermines interior ideology and accountability.

The radical besides criticised the designation of enforcement officers earlier removed by Congress, describing the determination arsenic “a usurpation of owed process and the union’s interior democracy.”

Beyond national matters, the acrophobic workers accused absorption of neglecting long-standing payment issues, including correction of wage shortfalls, remittance of statutory deductions (tax, pension, and lodging fund), afloat implementation of the Consolidated Legislative Salary Structure, and outgo of allowances covering rent subsidy, leave, hazard, and medicals.

They besides demanded the implementation of the 40% consolidated peculiar allowance approved successful 2023 for national workers, proviso of authoritative vehicles for directorate staff, unit buses for inferior cadres, and grooming templates for capableness development.

Other demands see the implementation of the National Assembly Service Pension Board (Establishment) Act, 2023, and the contiguous exertion of the caller minimum wage and its consequential adjustments.

As hostility mounts up of Tuesday’s plenary resumption, observers person posted that however the absorption handles the workers’ grievances could find whether mean legislative concern volition proceed smoothly oregon look disruption astatine the bosom of Nigeria’s lawmaking complex.