Govs have no excuse not to pay minimum wage – TUC President

The President of the Trade Union Congress , Boboi Kaigama who is a Taraba State governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress has said state governments have no excuse for failing to implement the minimum wage .
He said this shortly after picking his nomination and expression of interest forms at the National Secretariat of the APC , in Abuja, on Friday.

Kaigama said it was unfortunate that at this point in time state governments was still giving excuses when they ought to be preparing to implement the N 66 , 000 minimum wage being proposed by organised labour .

According to him , members of organised labour across Nigeria were already proposing the abrogation of Security Votes , saying some state governors deliberately stoke crisis in their areas so that they can fritter away resources using security vote as a vehicle.

Kaigama said; The issue of minimum wage is legitimate to the Nigerian worker . It is expected that five years down the line , employers are supposed to sit down with their employees represented by trade unions to review their wages . We are two years behind schedule on this . The dollar rate when the last minimum wage came into being was N 150 . It has now more than doubled that figure.

“ Governors are complaining about the proposed minimum wage , but the fact is that you cannot sit down in your own house and be waiting for allocation from the federation account and think you can pay minimum wage . You have to be creative and develop your own resources .

“There is no state as far as the working class is concerned that will say they cannot pay the proposed minimum wage . The money is there but corruption and incompetence would not allow them to pay . “

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