- Nigerian governors have asked the organised labour to choose between its proposed N30,000 minimum wage and
- This was contained in the communiqué issued at the end of an emergency meeting by the governors in Abuja on Wednesday, November 14
- The governors said labour should be willing to agree to job cuts or the Federal Government accedes to a review of the national revenue allocation formula
Nigerian governors have said they cannot afford to pay workers a minimum wage of N30,000 unless the organised labour wants its members to be sacked in massive job cuts nationwide.
This was contained in the communiqué issued at the end of an emergency meeting by the Nigerian Governors' Forum (NGF) in Abuja on Wednesday, November 14.
The NGF said labour should be willing to agree to job cuts or the Federal Government accedes to a review of the national revenue allocation formula.
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The Chairman of the NGF who is also the governor of Zamfara state, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari,read the communiqué on behalf of his colleagues after the meeting.
He said that new committee would be raised to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari over the issue.
He said the committee would work out another formula towards quickly resolving the problem associated with the proposed minimum wage.
His words: “Following a meeting of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum where we deliberated on the national minimum wage, governors resolved to re-strategise and put together another committee to meet with the president once again, to work out another formula towards quickly resolving the problem associated with the proposed N30.000 minimum wage which is impracticable unless labour agrees to a downsizing of the workforce all over the country or the Federal Government itself accedes to the review of the national revenue allocation formula.”
Yari said that he and his colleagues had seen the report of the Tripartite Committee report presented to President Muhammadu Buhari.
The committee, which is headed by Ama Pepple, recommended N30, 000 as minimum wage.
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Though the president received the report, he however said that he was still studying it.
He regretted that while the governors would want to pay, they would not be able to do so due to meagre resources available to them.
He also said it was wrong to use the price of crude oil in the international market to determine the minimum wage.
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