*BY: RALPH EJIMKONYE*
State Governors who have vowed not to implement the proposed N30,000 minimum wage will attract the ire of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC.
It would be recalled that Chairman of Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF and Zamfara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, was reported to have said that the proposed wage would be paid if Labour agree to downsize the work force across the country.
In his reaction, Labour leader, Ayuba Wabba, said the threat to sack workers is not a new development.
He said, “Therefore, the current one by the governor of Zamfara cannot be used to intimidate labour.
“The consequences of workers retrenchment are too grievous for any political office holder truly elected by the people to contemplate.
“Few political office holders are bent on enslaving Nigerian workers with peanuts mislabeled as salaries.
“We urge such elected public officials to subject their humongous salaries and allowances, reputed to be among the highest in the world to public perusal.
“Pro rata with the minimum wage they want to force down the throats of Nigerian workers,” NAN quoted him as saying.
Wabba called on each state governor to go to their respective states and inform workers on their individual position on the new national minimum wage of N30, 000.
“To the oppressors, we have only one answer for you, we will never sleep on our rights.
“We hereby reiterate our directive to Nigerian workers to vote out any politician or political party that refuses to pay the new national minimum wage of N30, 000.
“We shall continue to consolidate our efforts to strengthen already existing platforms and structures to give teeth to our resolve to vote out anti-labour governors and politicians in the forthcoming 2019 general election, ‘’Wabba said.
“It would interest Nigerians to know that the new national minimum wage of N30,000 was a product of intense and robust negotiations at the National Minimum Wage Tripartite Negotiation Committee that lasted for one year.
“ At the National Minimum Wage Tripartite Negotiation Committee, state governments were represented by six states, one state from each of the six geo-political zones.”
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