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Minimum Wage Of N30,000 Not Feasible Till 2028 - Alhaji Garba by Nkemakonam62: 2:55pm On Dec 19, 2018
Former Bauchi State Accountant General, Alhaji Garba Ali-Maigumau, said the N30,000 minimum wage being demanded by labour unions would not be feasible in the next 10 years, that is 2028.

Ali-Maigumau stated this on Wednesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bauchi.

“I am telling you this as an insider; People are clamouring for this N30,000, but it is not feasible; it will not work.

“For example in Bauchi there are 105,000 workers; if you will pay the minimum wage of N30,000, assuming everybody is on level one, if everybody is placed on level one, that is the minimum wage of N30,000 times 105,000 people, which will give you N3.150 billion.

“That is the basic only with no allowances.

“The allowances are bigger than the salary; so may be the allowances for somebody on grade level four step one, has a basic salary of N30,000 and his allowances will be about N50,000.

“N50,000 plus N30,000 is how much? N80,000.

“Now, N80,000 times 105,000 people will give you more than N10 billion.

“Where do you get N10 billion from? In Bauchi here the highest amount of money we get from the federation account is N4 billion for the state, plus N3 billion for the local government. Add that and you will get N7 billion.

“So if we will pay N10 billion for the entire workforce of the state and local government, where do you get the difference of N3 billion from?

“Does it mean we will only sit down and borrow money from the bank and pay salaries every month ?”

According to him, no state in the country has pledged to pay its workers the N30,000 minimum wage being demanded.

Ali-Maigumau, therefore, advised workers to be patient with the government because it could not afford to pay such wage at the moment due to scarcity of resources.

He said that gesture may be extended to workers to a marginal point in future.

“Both officials and membership of the organised labour are aware of what is happening.

“They know, they are only pretending because most labour union leaders are civil servants.

“So they cannot claim that they don’t know the financial standings of all the three tiers of government,” he said.

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Re: Minimum Wage Of N30,000 Not Feasible Till 2028 - Alhaji Garba by Sunnymatey(m): 3:21pm On Dec 19, 2018
Shut the fu**k up.

No reference to IGR, meaning they re just there to collect allocation and share.
Re: Minimum Wage Of N30,000 Not Feasible Till 2028 - Alhaji Garba by porka: 3:52pm On Dec 19, 2018
PDP successfully raised the minimum wage from N7500 to N18000 (a 140% increase) without any noise.

The impact was monumental on the lives of the workers.

New houses sprang up all over the country within few years.

Many workers transitioned to middle-class.

They could train their children in schools without N10,000 TraderMoni from anyone.

All of that has been wiped out within so short a time, sadly.

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