Media aide to former Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, Crusoe Osagie, has urged Governor Monday Okpebholo, to lift the N70,000 minimal wage applied by Obaseki as a substitute of making an attempt to garbage his achievements.
In an announcement on Sunday, Osagie tackled Okpebholo over the alleged declare that Obaseki didn’t implement the N70,000 minimal wage he declared for employees in April this 12 months.
“The most recent feeble try by the Edo State Authorities by the state performing Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Comrade Bernard Joman, accusing Governor Obaseki of not implementing the N70,000 minimal wage, isn’t solely mischievous and totally ridiculous but additionally exposes the federal government’s ignorance and showcases its lack of substance, imaginative and prescient, and a growth agenda for the state and its folks,” Osagie mentioned.
“It’s public data how former Governor Godwin Obaseki took the nation by storm, setting the tempo for discussions on improved employee welfare when he initiated the continued efforts by numerous States and the Federal Authorities to lift their minimal wage to N70,000 or above.
“The N70,000 minimal has since been applied, and Edo civil servants have loved it since Could 2024 with His Excellency, Godwin Obaseki, making historical past as the primary governor to begin the N70,000 new minimal wage fee.
“What civil servants anticipate from the governor Okpebholo is an additional improve to 100,000 month-to-month, contemplating that the inflation problem has worsened since Obaseki final elevated it to 70,000 month-to-month and never telling unintelligent lies and resorting to propaganda to attain low-cost political factors,” he mentioned.
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