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As things stand, the minimum wage in Nigerian isn't enough to buy a bag of rice in the market.
This fact was brought to light by Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, in Anambra state, Jerry Nnubia on Tuesday. He was speaking during a solidarity rally to protest killing of NLC members by policemen during a demonstration against slicing of their salaries in Nasarawa earlier this month.
“We are here today to show solidarity with our members in Nasarawa state who were killed and injured by overzealous policemen at the gate of government house, Nasarawa for opposing slice in their salary by the state governor, Tanko Al-Makura.
“Why should workers be victims of every economic doom? When we have economic boom nobody remembers workers.
“A bag of rice today is N23,000 or more and their minimum wage is N18,000. This is laughable.
“Why haven’t the governors sliced their wages and those of their aides?
“Our position is that any governor that can’t pay workers’ salaries should resign.
“Is it not laughable that the same salary paid when a bag of rice was sold for N9, 000 is the same salary that is paid when a bag of rice is sold for N23,000 or more?”
This fact was brought to light by Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, in Anambra state, Jerry Nnubia on Tuesday. He was speaking during a solidarity rally to protest killing of NLC members by policemen during a demonstration against slicing of their salaries in Nasarawa earlier this month.
“We are here today to show solidarity with our members in Nasarawa state who were killed and injured by overzealous policemen at the gate of government house, Nasarawa for opposing slice in their salary by the state governor, Tanko Al-Makura.
“Why should workers be victims of every economic doom? When we have economic boom nobody remembers workers.
“A bag of rice today is N23,000 or more and their minimum wage is N18,000. This is laughable.
“Why haven’t the governors sliced their wages and those of their aides?
“Our position is that any governor that can’t pay workers’ salaries should resign.
“Is it not laughable that the same salary paid when a bag of rice was sold for N9, 000 is the same salary that is paid when a bag of rice is sold for N23,000 or more?”
