Senate’ll ensure speedy passage of minimum wage bill – Spokesperson

The Deputy Chairman, Senate Committee on Media and Publicity, Senator Ben Murray-Bruce, has assured Nigerians that the upper legislative chamber would ensure the speedy passage of the National Minimum Wage Bill if forwarded to it on time by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Buhari had last week assured Nigerians that the necessary machinery was being put in place to transmit an executive bill to the National Assembly on the N30,000 new minimum wage package negotiated by a tripartite committee comprising government and labour.

Also, the Chairperson of the tripartite committee, Ms Ama Pepple, said last week that the enactment of the draft bill into law was critical to the operation and future reviews of the minimum wage.

Presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina, in a statement last week, also said that Buhari would not decide the new figure of national minimum wage until the National Assembly approved an amount.

Murray-Bruce, who spoke with The PUNCH correspondent on Monday, said the red chamber was eager to work on the document and ensure that its implementation would start next year, if the executive sent it on time.

The PUNCH, November 13, 2018

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