The lawmaker representing Lagos
Central Senatorial District in the upper chamber of the National Assembly,
Oluremi Tinubu, has stated her stand on the lingering issue of new minimum wage
for Nigerian workers.
Tinubu said she is in support
that workers should be taken care of, adding that President Muhammadu Buhari is
also in support of the proposed N30,000 minimum wage.
Speaking with Vanguard at the
weekend, Tinubu also said that Lagos State was always ready to pay any amount
agreed by the President Buhari administration.
Asked about her position on the
new minimum wage, Mrs. Tinubu said, “My antecedents will tell you that I was in
the trenches with my husband and I have been through a lot. I am with the
people and relate well with the boys and girls on the streets.
“These are the people that will
show you their voter’s cards. I owe them much. I speak their language. At times
when they come home to tell my husband and he says my wife doesn’t talk like
that, I just look!
“Sometimes when I speak their
language, they will say, why are you talking like us? Like yesterday. I will
speak truth to them like a mum and they listen! I was there, I asked why are
you all smoking weeds here?
“The audacity with which crime is
being perpetuated in our society is alarming. Am I scared? No! And that is the
soul and heart of a comrade. Whatever I wear, they all trust me and believe
that I am with their cause, I understand their pain and do the bit that I can
for them.
“On the minimum wage, I will say
that I support people to be taken care of. Leadership is about sacrifice and I
believe that the president too supports the minimum wage.
“If all of the big executives can
cut down on their allowances, we can make it. You know Lagos does not have such
problem, they will pay and that was why I said even my Work Experience
Programme, I am going to pay even more than the monthly minimum wage and this
will come through my salaries and allowances.
“If I am going to take like 100
youths, I will look for good corporate organizations that can employ them, they
don’t have to pay them, but they will just come in as interns and I could pay
them about N40,000 for lunch and transport and to dress well to go.
“That could be my contribution.
Like the boy we set up a barber shop for, somebody gave me a slot to go to
Mecca, I gave it to him! So, I have to change one life at a time, it doesn’t
have to be a lot, but if I am in the executive, maybe I can do more, but as a
legislator, your hands are tied.”
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