The Presidency has dismissed as ‘false’ a news report credited to President Muhammadu Buhari that Federal Government employees would not be paid December salary due to a shortfall in budgetary allocation.
Speaking with State House correspondents on the apprehension generated by the news item, the Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, urged government employees not to allow the false report to startle them.
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He said the constancy in the payment of salary by this administration, and President Buhari’s explicit compassion for the working class should be enough to calm their apprehension.
Shehu, therefore, called on peddlers of false publications to think hard about the implications of their actions and desist from that.
The rapid spread of the false publication has already destabilised some employees’ plans for the forthcoming Christmas celebration.
