The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC,
has lamented the continued delay of President Muhamadu Buhari to implement the
N30,000 minimum wage report.
Ayuba Wabba, the President of NLC
warned that workers were running out of patience on the implementation of the
new wage.
Wabba frowned at Buhari’s delay
in transmitting an executive bill for the N30,000 minimum wage to the National
Assembly.
Speaking on Monday at this year’s
‘Harmattan School of the Congress’ holding in Abuja, he said the continued
delay by the President was stretching the workers’ patience to their limits.
The NLC boss also described as
unfortunate the position of some governors who are opposed to the N30.000 new
minimum wage, “but are spending billions of dollars in the name of security
votes which they can’t account for.”
He said, “We don’t know why the
president has not transmitted the executive bill, the report of the tripartite
committee to the National Assembly for an enactment into law, because workers
patience is running out.
“We have maintained that any
governor that said he can’t pay the N30,000 should go to his state, gather
workers and tell them they are spending billions of dollars in the name of
security votes but once it comes to payment of N30,000 minimum wage, they are
saying workers are just 20 percent.
“How can they say that because
without workers which include health workers, police, army and others, most
politicians can’t sleep.
“Minimum wage is not a favour but
a right of a worker because the law states that after 30days, a labourer is
worthy of his wage”.
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