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Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana said both the federal and state governments have the capacity to pay the national minimum wage if looted monies are recovered.

Falana stated this in an interview with Channels Television.

He said, “The state governments that are saying they have no money to pay, the money is there.

“All they need, including the Federal Government, is to muster the political will to collect and recover money either looted or withheld from the federation account,” he added.

Recall that the organised labour and the federal government have yet to reach an agreement on the new minimum wage with the latter rejecting the former’s N62,000 offer.

During the last meeting held by the Tripartite Committee on the New Minimum Wage on Friday in Abuja, labour reduced its demand to N250,000 from N494,000, while the Federal Government increased its offer from N60,000 to N62,000.


The proposed minimum wage may have to wait until 2 July because the National Assembly is on holiday. During the show, the senior lawyer asked the Nigerian authorities to muster the political will to pay the minimum wage.

helinues:
Recovered loot that are being relooted?

helinues:
Recovered loot that are being relooted?

RoyalUc:
Nice question from helinues

TechBaron:
I'm aware of a recent 1Bn theft that occurred on the account of a state government in the North Central.

I don't know if I can trust the EFCC. I would really love to whistle blow.

These people looting our monies are basically a bunch of nobodies.

They can't even read or write.

Yet, in less than 6 hours, they moved 1 billion Naira and changed it into dollars.