Speaking during a rally in solidarity with Nasarawa state workers
who were allegedly killed by the police while protesting against the
slice in wages, the Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Anambra
state chapter, Jerry Nnubia, on Tuesday, described as laughable that the
country’s minimum wage could no longer buy a bag of rice.
The NLC state chairman who disclosed that it was wicked for any
state government to think of cutting down workers’ pay at this time of
economic hardship, described the Nasarawa action as inhuman, said;
“We are here today to show solidarity with our members in
Nasarawa state who were killed and injured by overzealous policemen at
the gate of government house, Nasarawa for opposing slice in their
salary by the state governor, Tanko Al-Makura.
“Why should workers be victims of every economic doom? When we
have economic boom nobody remembers workers. A bag of rice today is
N23,000 or more and their minimum wage is N18,000. This is laughable.
“Why haven’t the governors sliced their wages and those of
their aides? Our position is that any governor that can’t pay workers’
salaries should resign.
“Is it not laughable that the same salary paid when a bag of
rice was sold for N9, 000 is the same salary that is paid when a bag of
rice is sold for N23,000 or more?,” he said, adding that "slicing of anybody’s salary now is not only wicked; it’s criminal."
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