Reduce Your Luxury Not Minimum Wages, Fayose Tells Govs

Reduce Your Luxury Not Minimum Wages, Fayose Tells Govs

Ekiti state governor, Ayodele Fayose has distanced himself from calls made by some state governors to reduce the federal minimum wage of N... 12:02

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.
Governor Ayodele Fayose has urged the state governors
to reduce the affluence they enjoy in office instead of
reducing salaries of workers.
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.
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