The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC,
Edo State Chapter, says it will boycott the 2019 general elections if the
N30,000 minimum wage bill was not transmitted to the National Assembly by
President Muhammadu Buhari.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
reports that Mr Emmanuel Ademokun, Chairman, Edo NLC, stated this on Tuesday in
Benin, when he led a protest to Government House, to press for the payment of
the new minimum wage.
Ademokun said Nigerian workers
were the least paid in the world, insisting that, “it must be N30,000 minimum
wage on or before election or no election.”
“We are here to express our
grievances over the non-transmission of the N30,000 minimum wage to the
National Assembly, because we are aware that the bill has been presented to the
president.
“Workers must decide who will
govern them,” he said.
He said the union had no issue
with Edo government as regards workers’ welfare, noting that the state
governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, had promised to pay the N30,000 amount when passed
into law.
NAN reports that Ademokun
presented a copy of the union’s notice of impending strike to Obaseki.
Responding, Obaseki reassured
them of his administration’s readiness to pay whatever amount was passed into
law.
The governor, who was represented
by the Head of Service, Mr Isaac Ehiozuwa, said Edo was “workers’ friendly.”
He said that the state had gone
ahead to pay N25,000 minimum wage when other states were still paying N18,000.
“The NLC chairman has said it
all. The state is labour friendly, and we will implement whatever is passed
into law by the National Assembly.”
He commended the union for the
peaceful conduct of the protest and assured that the workers would smile at the
end of the day.
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