President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Ayuba Wabba, has assured Nigerian workers that labour would ensure the implementation of the new national minimum wage of N30,000 which was recently signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Wabba gave the assurance on Wednesday while launching the Oyo State Pensioners’ House in Ibadan.
The complex houses a 1, 000-seater event hall, a radio station, a clinic for pensioners and an ICT centre.
The NLC President who was represented at the event by the Oyo State NLC chairman, Waheed Olojede, described some government officials across all tiers as enemies of the workers insisting that with the new minimum wage, there would be “no retreat no surrender.”
He said further: “We thank God that the struggle for a new wage which began in 2011, was finally laid to rest with the assent of President Muhammadu Buhari last Thursday. The assent has made it a law, therefore making it incumbent on all employers of labour to pay every Nigerian worker N30, 000 as minimum wage.
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“Unfortunately, leaders of governments at all tiers are enemies of workers. They never at anytime want to succumb to the provision of the law, when it comes to the right and welfare of the workers. But having secured N30,000, we will make sure all governors implement it 100 per cent.
“The process has the inclusion and full participation of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum. We will go ahead in prosecuting 100 per cent of the new pay to the Nigerian workers,”
National President of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners, Dr Abel Afolayan, congratulated the pensioners in the state for their support and cooperation which made the project a huge success.
The occasion was graced by other national labour leaders.
