Adeyeye: Why Senate Committee is yet to Meet on Minimum Wage

The eight-man Ad-hoc Committee set up by the Senate to look into the National Minimum Wage Bill presented to it by President Muhammadu Buhari, has explained the reason for its inability to meet one week after it was constituted.

The Chairman of the Ad-hoc Committee, Senator Sola Adeyeye, said their inability to meet was due to the involvement of most members in re-election campaigns.

Adeyeye, who regretted the inability of the committee to meet since its inauguration last week in an interview with THISDAY yesterday, said six members of the committee are currently busy in their senatorial districts canvassing for votes to return to the Senate.

Adeyeye representing Osun Central in the National Assembly added that most of the committee members are contesting in the National Assembly election fixed for Saturday, February 16, saying it has been difficult to mobilise them for the required public hearing session on the bill.

THISDAY, January 31, 2019

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