Fayose Slams Governors Over Minimum Wage Reduction, Read What He Wants Instead

Ekiti state governor, Ayodele Fayose has distanced himself from calls made by some state governors to reduce the federal minimum wage of N18,000 of public servants or that there should be massive retrenchment in the public sector, Vanguard reports.

Governors had two weeks ago declared that they could no longer cope with the N18, 000 minimum wage. The pronouncement caused a stir as Nigerians kicked against it.

Fayose urged the state governors to reduce the affluence they enjoy in office instead of reducing salaries and sacking workers.

Fayose stated this in a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti on Friday, December 4, by Idowu Adelusi, the governor’s chief press secretary, during the Agenda for the Treasury Board meeting held as part of preparation of the state’s 2016 budget.

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The Ekiti state governor said: “Today most newspapers carried the story about call by some state governors that the minimum wage of N18,000 be reduced or that there should be massive retrenchment of workers in the public service. They are on their own and I take exemption to that. The minimum wage is even not enough.

Reduction of wages or retrenchment of workers won’t happen in Ekiti State. Instead of those anti-labour and anti-people policies, the governors should cut down on their travels and tours and cut down minimum wives and children and their affluence. Let the governors cut their coats according to their sizes.”

In the same vein, Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo state has assured the leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) that he will personally lead the protest against any governor that fails to pay the agreed minimum wage.

Speaking at the 6th quadrennial national delegates conference of Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) in Abuja, he said there was no justification for any governor not to pay the minimum wage

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