Start paying wages award for workers, Tinubu Appeals to States
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu have appealed to all state governors in the country adopt and start paying the wages award pending the determination of the new salary wage to relieve the public from hunger.
Tinubu made this appeal in Minna, Niger State capital at the flag-off of the agricultural mechanization revolution for food security and the commissioning of the remodelled domestic terminal of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Airport on Monday.
The president who noted that if the states had implemented the wage awards, it would have provided much-needed relief without causing inflationary pressures said all states needed to adopt the wage award, saying that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) would also adopt same.
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.”
