BREAKING: Tinubu Directs States To Implement Wage Award
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appealed to state governors to start paying the wage awards pending the determination of the new minimum wage to reduce the hardship of the economy on the people.
The President implied that if the states had implemented the wage awards, it would provide much-needed relief without causing inflationary pressures.
Speaking in Minna at the flag-off of the agricultural mechanization revolution for food security and the commissioning of the remodeled domestic terminal of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Airport in Minna, the President stated that all states need to adopt the wage award saying that the National Executive Council would also adopt it.
He said: “If all of you, the sub-nationals have been paying the wages award, pending the determination of the new salary wage. Let all the states start paying the wages award. Whatever they are taking now plus the wage award would relieve the public.
“Please, I am not giving an order, I am appealing to you states, start paying the wages awards, let everyone start paying it. It is a relief to the people. The mechanism is the fact that it won’t be inflationary if we announce the new salary wage in a few weeks or months, they would have gotten used to the basic wages of N30,000 plus the wages award, and it will have a dampening effect on the market. Please get sub-nationals together and NEC should adopt this.”
@Apaya#Mr. President you have REALLY spoken in the right place and to the right person.
This is a place where the government of the day has no concern to the plight of the Civil Servants, the Governor has not shown any interest in pay the agreed wage award.
In fact the N20,000 he pledged to pay this month was made with vague language, only him and understands the meaning of 20k.
