In Niger, with the end of the month, the salary payments of civil servants are supposed to have started since Friday, August 25. Except that one month to the day after the coup, the country is still facing significant economic sanctions and their effects are being felt. So, within the public service, many of them are worried about not receiving their salaries. For their part, the authorities want to reassure on the preparations for the payments.
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To pay salaries, the Nigerian state generally calls on banks, which make advances that are repaid later, according to a source close to banking circles. According to this source, there is talk of 30 billion CFA francs on average per month to pay these agents.
“Finalized”
“ The salary statement has been finalized and deposited in the banks for payment from Friday or Monday “, According to several sources contacted by RFI. However, all of them specify that they do not know ” always not if civil servants will be able to receive their salaries this month.
However, insuring these payments is “ crucial for the putschists “, underlines an analyst – who wished to remain anonymous -, first to ensure the support of the population because “ civil servants and particularly the military are one of the keys to the stability of the system “. Afterwards, “ their discontent can easily tip the current balance “, continues the analyst.
Pillars
But civil servants are also one of the pillars of the country’s economy. Gold, ” without wages, global consumption falls and commercial activities seize up “explains one of our sources who predicts that” the whole system could be unbalanced “.
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