Minimum Wage: NLC Ready To Battle Governors As Cleric Kicks
Jerry Nnubia, the chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has warned state governors against the moves to stop the payment of N18, 000 minimum wages to workers.
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Nnubia’s advise comes after Paulinus Ezeokafor of the Catholic Diocese of Awka , said that slashing of workers’ salaries was “another national tragedy” in the making.
Both expressed their views in separate interviews with newsmen in Awka on Monday, December 7.
Governors at a meeting
According to Nnubia and Ezeokafor, a move to halt the payment of N18, 000 minimum wage to workers would be a disservice to Nigerians, Vanguard reports.
“Whenever there is any economic down turn in the country, the leaders begin to target the civil servants who contribute to the nation’s wealth.
“The people who hardly benefit from the oil boom should not be the ones to suffer the economic doom. What have the leaders done to cut their excesses in terms of their bogus contracts and the retinue of aides.
“We are ready to give them a fight against their move if they do not rescind their plans,” Nnubia said.
Speaking also, Bishop Ezeokafor, described the state governors’ move as a “disaster in waiting” and blamed corrupt leaders for the nation’s current economic woes
He said: “The threats we are receiving today are results of the mismanagement of the natural resources by past corrupt public office holders.
“Some people, who ought to have maximised the nation’s resources, cornered the nation’s wealth into their pockets.
“We should be clamouring for a living wage for workers and not pay cut on the N18, 000 minimum wage which is not enough for the civil servant to solve their social and economic challenges,’’ he said.
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Governors had two weeks ago declared that they could no longer cope with the N18, 000 minimum wage. The pronouncement caused a stir as Nigerians kicked against it.
However, Governor Adams Oshiomhole had assured the leadership of the NLC that he will personally lead the protest against any governor that fails to pay the agreed minimum wage.
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