The Association of Senior Civil
Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), Oyo State chapter, has condemned the delay in the
signing of the N30,000 minimum wage into law by President Muhammad Buhari.
The lower and upper chambers of
the National Assembly had earlier in the year passed the N30,000 minimum wage
bill as against the N27,000 recommendation of the council of states.
The bill has, however, been
awaiting presidential assent.
In March, Buhari received the
report of the Technical Advisory Committee on the implementation of the new
National Minimum Wage, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Buhari had on January 9
inaugurated the advisory committee chaired by an economist and financial
expert, Mr Bismarck Rewane.
A statement at the weekend by Oyo
State Chairman of ASCSN, Comrade Babatunde Balogun, said: “We won’t be able to
assure the President industrial peace and harmony in the country if the passed
minimum wage bill is not assented to by the President before May-Day celebration
on 1st of May, 2019’’.
Balogun lamented that the
Nigerian workers have gone through harsh economic and financial situation since
the inception of the Buhari led All Progressives Congress (APC) government,
saying ‘’one would have expected the government to pay the resilience and unbearable
economic situation of workers with speedy assent of the passed Bill into law’’.
‘’But if the government failed to
assent before the May day celebration, we won’t be able to assure the
government industrial peace in the country.
“The workers economic conditions
have moved from bad to worse under this government and all we can get now is
this unwarranted and avoidable delay in assenting to the passed new minimum
wage regime that we’ve been battling for 18 months now.
“This is high act of wickedness
and is unacceptable to us’’, Balogun stressed.
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