 The National Economic Council has set up a committee to review recommendations by the National Salaries and Wages Commission to cushion the impact of the removal of the petrol subsidy. At its first meeting presided over by Vice President Kashim Shatema, the next set, the committee should review the 702 billion area recommended as the cost of leaving allowance to civil servants to ease the burden of the subsidy removal. The committee which comprises governors from each geopolitical zone is chaired by Nassir Idris, governor of Kaby. Burchasted governor Bala Mohamed, who briefed state house correspondence after the meeting, said the commission also recommended 23 billion or 25 billion area monthly offer to cushion the effect on workers. On the issue of National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission, NEC had received recommendations on the various ways and means that this in the country can use whatever increases that we have in the revenue to mitigate the impact that is going to make on the lives of our workers and all those people involved. And so they recommended and they gave us a scenario recommending that there should be an adjustment, consequential adjustment estimated at 702 billion to 919 million at Naira as part of the allowances that should be given as petroleum allowance to all workers and as well as 23 out of 45 billion monthly offer to cushion the effect on workers.