The Federal Government has said that it cannot promise an “impossible” minimum wage that it would not be able to afford.
The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof
Muhammad Pate, made the assertion in an interview on Channels Television on
Wednesday.
The minister, however, expressed the government’s commitment
to improving the welfare and wages of doctors, nurses and other health workers
in the country.
“We appreciate them. There are few who chose to go abroad
for training. We’ve approved for some of them to go to other places to be
trained. We expect that when they train, they will come back home.
“We are expanding the training of those who are around and
improving the working conditions.
“In the context of the wage review that is ongoing in the
country, of course with the Salary Incomes and Wages Commission, we have made
submissions to have some adjustment of the remuneration of the health
workforce,” he said.
The minister’s comment comes hours after the Federal
Executive Council, FEC, stepped down a minimum wage review memo to allow for
more consultations.
Recall that in his Democracy Day speech on June 12, 2024,
President Bola Tinubu assured the Organised Labour that an Executive Bill on
the new national minimum wage for workers would soon be sent to the National
Assembly for passage.
Tinubu is expected to make a decision on the N62,000
proposal of the government and private sector side; and Labour’s N250,000
demand.
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