Boniface Ihiasota
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has issued warnings to its state chapters against considering any renegotiation for downward review of the already signed minimum wage law of N30,000 from governors.
This warning was issued by the national president of the NLC, Ayuba Wabba, in Ado Ekiti, the capital of Ekiti state during an event to mark the election of new leadership of the labour organisation.
The former chairman of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU), Ekiti state University branch, Olatunde Kolapo, was elected as the new state chairman of the NLC.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) stated that the country’s workers were under strict instructions not to accept any minimum wage less than N30,000 from the governors
According to Wabba, the new minimum wage had become binding, having been approved by the two chambers of the National Assembly and signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari. The NLC president also used the occasion to point out that some state governors were said to come up with excuses as to why they could not fulfill this directive. He described this action as an afterthought which was therefore untenable.
Wabba’s address was delivered by an ex-officio member of the congress, Maureen Onyia-Ekwuazi. “Once the minimum wage bill has been signed by President Buhari, it has become a law and we won’t allow any governor to circumvent the law “What we asked for was a living wage and we cannot allow anybody to shortchange our members,” she said.
