Hope Uzodinma, governor of Imo, has approved the increase of
minimun wage of workers in the state to N40,000 to cushion effects of the
removal of fuel subsidy.
Uzodinma, while addressing members of the state executive
council on Saturday, said the current economic situation caused by the removal
of fuel subsidy is biting hard on the people.
In a statement by Oguwike Nwachukwu, the governor’s chief
press secretary, Uzodinma said his administration will give out soft loans,
grants, provide seedlings and farm tools to qualified farmers in the state.
“There shall be an immediate upward review of the salaries and
wages of workers in the state. The minimum wage is hereby raised to forty
thousand naira (N40,000) with discretionary consequential adjustments,” the
governor said.
“At least, your
salaries would be able not only to take you home, but to also provide your
basic necessities to enable you to make ends meet.
“Apart from the free transport which the workers are already
enjoying, I shall increase the fleet of buses carrying workers to and from work
with ten more new buses. This is to ensure every nook and cranny of the state
capital is captured in the routes that the buses ply, to bring the service
closest to the doorsteps of every worker.
“Also, plans have reached advanced level to recalibrate the
tax system in Imo state, with Governor Uzodimma hinting that those who earn
below N100,000 annually are likely going to be yanked off the State’s tax net.
“I have discovered,
with pain, how some traders are taking advantage of the economic situation to
increase the prices of food items in the market.
“Against this backdrop, the government will soon establish
Imo State Marketing and Commodity Board (ISMCB), which will ensure food items
are sold at normal prices.
“We shall achieve this by setting up low cost markets in the
state where prices of food items and commodities will be affordable for the
masses. The markets will be situated in all the 27 LGAs of the state.”
The Imo governor added that his administration will set up a
scholarship education board in the state for students whose parents cannot
afford sending them to school.
“In the same vein, we
are introducing a scholarship education board for our brilliant students whose
parents are poor to train them in school,” he said.
“I have found out that most of our brilliant children come
from poor homes and end up not furthering their education after leaving the
primary and secondary school.
“These brilliant students will be given scholarship to higher
institutions.”
The Edo government had also increased the minimum wage of
workers in the state to N30,000.
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That is a good one, I believe my state Benue will soon follow suit
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