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Organised Labour on Saturday tackled the state governors, accusing them of acting in bad faith towards the new minimum wage negotiations ongoing in the country.

Recall that the governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors Forum rejected the proposed N60,000 minimum wage for Nigerian workers.

In a statement issued on Friday by the Director of Media and Public Affairs for NGF, Halimah Ahmed, the governors said the proposed minimum wage was too high and not sustainable.

The governors said if the N60,000 minimum wage is adopted, many states would allocate their entire Federal Account Allocation Committee funds to salaries, leaving no resources for development projects.

However reacting on Saturday, the Organised Labour faulted the NGF’s position, saying every part of the new minimum wage agreement should be implemented and any of the state governors who can’t pay it should resign.

Speaking with Sunday PUNCH, Deputy National President of the Trade Union Congress, Tommy Etim, said, “There is no minimum wage. Every segment of it should be implemented. For the governors, we have said it very clearly. If you cannot pay minimum wage, please resign because you were voted for governance not for only infrastructure.”

“If you build the entire infrastructure and the people are not living to use it, who will use it? When they were campaigning did they tell us that? They didn’t tell us that. They make use of the poor to get to the top and when they get there, they start thinking outside the box. All the money they spent in electioneering campaigns, if they applied that to build infrastructure, to develop the revenue generation that would have solved some socio-economic challenges in their domain,” Etim said.

Describing the NGF statement as a recipe for industrial unrest, he said, “In this same country, the governors said that N30,000 was too much for governors to pay but it is in the same country that a governor emerged with over N80bn. What an irony! We cannot jump processes. We will also look at it together. Labour will be meeting. We are giving Mr President the benefit of the doubt to work the talk. The end will justify the means.”

Also reacting in a statement signed by its Head of Public Affairs, Benson Upah, the Nigerian Labour Congress said, “We do believe the Governors have acted in bad faith. It is unheard of for such a statement to be issued to the world in the middle of an on-going negotiation. It is certainly in bad taste.

“As for the veracity of their claim, nothing can be further from the truth as FAAC allocations have since moved from N700bn to N1.2tn, making the governments extremely rich at the expense of the people.

“All that the governors need to do to be able to pay a reasonable national minimum wage (not even the N60,000) is cut on the high cost of governance, minimise corruption as well as prioritise the welfare of workers.”

Source: https://punchng.com/Minimum-wage-Resign-if-you-cant-pay-labour-tackles-govs

Which obaseki?
The 70k he's paying is just for political clout.
Edo governorship election is around the corner bro.
https://www.nairaland.com/8080389/obasekis-n70000-minimum-wages-greek

awolegcy:
Where obaseki de see money pay? With Lagos

Nice one.

Well Said

It's as simple as that. Governors are the most useless set of people we have in this country.
Their contributions to where we found ourselves today is more than we can ever imagine.
We would have been halfway there if these people are doing their jobs, but since they know everyone blames the Federal government and the President for everything, they get away with incompetence.

This governors are heartless and insincere. If you cant pay then resign bitche*a..

I have said it and I will say it again, 70% of our problems are from the governors.... I am still asking myself where abia state governor is getting the money he is using

Resign if you can't pay!
Simple

Nigeria is the theatre of the absurd. Governors prefer wastages against the people's welfare. Tufiakwa!!!

Governors are truly the problem of Nigeria...

Ok. Governors sabotaging labour's effort

That won't still solve the problem. Let there be a fair model for calculating minimum wages based on the economic realities of the various states. For example, South-South states should have a higher minimum compared to other states except perhaps Lagos. In the north where the cost of living is relatively lower, the minimum wage should follow suit except if the state generates enough IGR to afford a higher figure. All in all, make sure you get a good side hustle if you're a civil servant especially working with the state government.

Lol the movie go long FG can afford buh some states won't mind to continue with dere 8k, 18k...

Let the state that can pay then pay, and those that cannot afford it pay their stipend to their citizens afterall not all state was paying the 30k before

Clowns 🤡.

Resign? These communist labor leaders are delusional.
So these Governors should make promises that they know they can't keep

Coward Ajaero, he can only bark against FG to score cheap political points. Flex your muscles on state governors and lets see if they won't remove your teeth. Ajaero has turned into a motivational speaker.

-Kiss the truth!

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I have said it and I will say it again, 70% of our problems are from the governors.... I am still asking myself where abia state governor is getting the money he is using

Nice jab.

D

Now the governors are flexing muscle.. every state's igr increased since the subsidy removal and most governor neither improved the current state of their workers nor created SMEs for their people. This is why Nigeria needs the LG to work and LG seats should be elected by the people

TimeManager:
Coward Ajaero, he can only bark against FG to score cheap political points. Flex your muscles on state governors and lets see if they won't remove your teeth. Ajaero has turned into a motivational speaker.

-Kiss the truth!

Once beaten 10 times shy!

Greedy governors

This labor people no serious!

Na only illegal energy shutdown them Sabi!

Make them tackle governors make we see.

Politician go resign for Nigeria, make I bend

Way to Go, brainless Governors, they done bury tax payers money for hole

Dey play

People are becoming wiser….. seeing who the real monsters are

The governors…they are behaving like a demigods

Any governor who cannot pay should quietly resign.
It's not a must to remain governor.

Since 1999,Governors will be the problems oooo but will manipulate their people against the FG or particular region!


Like in SOUTHSOUTH,their Governors have programmed them to blame FG and Oil money for their underdevelopment.