The Senate has passed the National Minimum Wage Act CAP N61 LFN (repeal and re-enactment) Bill, 2019, giving Nigerian workers a minimum wage of N30, 000.
A report by the Ad hoc committee on National minimum wage was presented by Senator Francis Alimikhena, read for the third time and passed.
The Senate then dissolved into the Committee of the Whole house for the clause by clause consideration of the report of the Ad-hoc Committee.
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Speaking during the deliberations, Senator Ahmad Lawan noted that the Ad-hoc Committee had promised to give a new minimum wage to Nigerians and that they have fulfilled the promise.
According to hi, “We do not have to wait until we are threatened with strike action before we take action. The Nigerian workers must show that the government is paying them and they are paying the government in service.”
After the bill was passed, Senate President Bukola Saraki commended the leadership of the organised labour stating that government should not always wait for there to be strikes to do what is truly deserving for the workers.
