MINIMUM WAGE: YOU’RE BEING UNFAIR TO US, KADUNA GOVT. TELLS NLC
The Governor of Kaduna State, Uba Sani, has began the implementation of the National Minimum Wage Act.
A statement by Sani’s Chief Press Secretary, Malam Ibraheem Musa, said that it was a misrepresentation for the Nigerian Labor Congress (NLC) in the state to claim the state government has defaulted.
Musa added that NLC’s lumping of Kaduna State with others was grossly unfair because the least paid worker received N72,000 as gross salary in the month of November.
He went on to disclose that Kaduna State receives an average of N8 billion from the Federal Account Allocation Committee in Abuja every month.
The CPS contended that it would be unfair for the Kaduna State Government to spend almost all its revenue on consequential adjustments, after paying the mandatory Minimum Wage.
He pleaded with the NLC to exercise patience over the consequential adjustments, pending when Government’s revenue would improve.
