NBAIS Staff, Board Disagree On Payment Of Salary Arrears

Some aggrieved staff of the National Board for Arabic and Islamic Studies (NBAIS) have called on relevant authorities to urge the board to pay their salary arrears running to over 17 months.

The affected staff numbering over 700 in a statement made available to newsmen in Kaduna disclosed that they had fulfilled all conditions requested of them, particularly capturing them on the  Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) for the payment of salaries, but to no avail.

They also alleged that some staff who are more elitist were selected and paid the salaries to the detriment of others.

Their statement, titled, “Complaint Against Non-payment of Salary” was jointly signed by Muhammad Suleiman as the chairman, Benjamin Ishiaka as the secretary and Andulsalam Ibrahim as the public relations officer of the affected staff.

The statement read in part, “We were employed since January 2021 by the National Board for Arabic & Islamic studies (NBAIS). And we were adequately captured in the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) on December 2021 and it is very unfortunate to this day only a few persons who constitute about 30% of employed staff received their salaries, while the remaining 70% were left with their fate hanging in the air with a backlog of 17 months  salaries”.

When contacted, the information officer of NBAIS, Muhammad Y. Sambo, confirmed the issue of salary arrears, saying, “The board has no reason to withhold any staff salary if government releases it”.