THE Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC has demanded for a review of the present minimum wage paid to workers in accordance with the economic realities.

The Comrade Ayuba Wabba-led faction of NLC yesterday in Abuja after its National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting also said that an increment of workers salary would help to reduce corruption in the polity.

He said that it was unacceptable for Nigerians including the labour force to live in abject poverty while few privileged people continue to steal the nation’s resources and starch it in foreign banks.

Comrade Wabba who assured that the labour movement would lead the protest to ensure that the federal government recovered the looted funds said that NLC would organise a symbolic national one day protest to ensure that such funds in the hands of individuals were recovered.

He explained that the NEC would demand from government and the tripartite partners for the review of the minimum wage.

He also noted that the pitiable state of the nation’s economy has become of great concern to the labour union as it has affected the working class and had led to many states not being able to pay salaries as at when due.

While appreciating the efforts of the Council of States for approving the bailout for states that had been unable to pay salaries to workers, he said that NLC was disturbed that despite the federal government gesture, the effect of the bailout was yet to be seen.

According to him, while in some states relative progress had been made, few states had remained chronic, adding that the Central Working Committee, CWC of the union was of the view that payment of salary should be a matter of national priority and that the NEC would not fold arms watching workers not to be paid as at when due.

For the states that had received the bailouts, Wabba called on the Federal Government to also put in place mechanism to monitor how the funds were utilised and also frowned at the development where some banks withheld the bailout fund as a result of the indebtedness of some the states to the banks.

NLC condemned the waiver granted to some establishments in the country which had denied the country money while workers were subjected to pay taxes, and said that nobody should be allowed to evade taxes in any form.

He urged the judiciary to hasten the trials of those indicted for looting the nation’s treasury and other allegation of treasury and also told the anti-corruption agency to always device a process to promptly responding to allegations of corruption.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/increment-of-workers-salary-ll-reduce-corruption-nlc/

lemme them
go on strike
nah....

Good rubbish


What'sup Apc dullards??

Una don dey here!!

Make una lemme taste FTC 1 more time now

To a large extent, it will reduce the rate of crime and HUNGER

No one can trust this stupid NLC again after they betrayed all Nigerians in 2010 subsidy removal.

Are you done with the bribe you collected in 2010.

Only if combined with REDUCTION of the salary of political office holders otherwise no show!



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UnknownT:
na lie!! Na only Buhari fit reduce corruption

Yes the daft man who said he knows nothing about subsidies but CONTINUES to pay

We have been SCAMMED big time walahi.



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I think the minimum wage should be increased and all federal , state and local government workers salary needs to be reviewed and increased but i dont think increasing workers salary would stop corruption. You can imagine all our law makers that earns a lot of money does that stop them from stealing ? HELL No

The only thing that can stop corruption in Nigeria is God and our legal system, if you can sanitise the police and the judicial systems and make everything work believe if everyone knows nobody is above the law the will behave

Those working are less paid while those useless rascals that knws nothing but throwing of chairs earns millions.... Story of Nigeria

This doesn't not make sense but it makes sense

Brainless Twerps

Wage increase to an acceptable level => Inflation => Rise in cost of goods and service => same old shyte

ok

Bookdt!

Can one ever be satisfied of accumulating money?

u sure?

How wl the increase stop corruption...?

little relationship exists b/w the two.

In as much I would like salaries to be increased, but honestly I don't think that's an antidote for reducing corruption.

What of The jobless?since to increase the workers salary will reduce corruption.

anonimi:


Yes the daft man who said he knows nothing about subsidies but CONTINUES to pay

We have been SCAMMED big time walahi.

Jesus christ of nazareth...

Why on earth do you do this on every single thread

thats a big lie. Corruption will never reduce. Even Buhari is corrupt.

I don't think so.

That's not an excuse.

NLC must be full of totally incompetent people who are totally unlearned,can't read or can't understand what responsibilities they have. How would the addition of a few thousand help the workers in these perilous times.inflation will.render such an increase.useless. A nation that has lost a significant.part.of.its revenue base is being asked to incur more deficit by borrowing to finance an increase in recurrent expenditure . Jeez. Where is the value such an increase will bring ?

Humans and our insatiable wants, we can never be satisfied.


Our politicians with huge salaries and overblown allowances are still corrupt.

Increase the money though not for the corruption aspect but to increase their leaving standard.

I support him and believe that if the salaries of workers are raised it will help reduce corruption. The salary of most workers are nothing to write home about. It can barely be enough for one person not to talk of someone with a family. Yes many will say why wont they manage, after all they are lucky to have jobs while many do not have at all,but the question that comes to my mind is, why should citizens of this country manage in the mist of many and also when few are looting our joint money. prices of things have increased due to the depreciation of our currency. So salaries should be increased at both federal and state level in order to help the workers cope with their families and person problems.This will help to curb many from taking bribes or stealing national money.

Lai! Lai!! Lai!!!

Even if you pay the least level worker in Nigeria N100k/monthly he will still wants more. How do you explain the logic behind the tendencies of well paid governors and parliament members in Nigeria who still syphon public funds to their personal aggrandizement? Corruption is endemic in Nigeria. It would take attitudinal orientation to break free.