Minimum wage: NLC wants govs who diverted bailouts probed

The General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Peter Ozo-Eson, said governors who claimed to lack the financial capacity to pay the N30,000 minimum wage should not be taken seriously because some of them diverted the bailouts paid to them by the Federal Governments instead of paying backlog of workers’ salaries.

Ozo-Eson also said in an interview with our correspondent that while the union expected the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to deal with the affected governors, nothing was done even though the commission’s report indicted some of the governors.

The Nigeria Governors Forum, through its chairman, Abdulaziz Yari, had said after a meeting that its members would not be able to pay the new minimum wage of N30,000.

Already, the NLC had said it would stage a nationwide protest on January 8, 2019 over the minimum wage crisis.

The PUNCH, December 31, 2018

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