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 an alternative of making an attempt to garbage his achievements.
In a press release on Sunday, Osagie tackled Okpebholo over the alleged declare that Obaseki didn’t implement the N70,000 minimal wage he declared for staff in April this yr.
“The newest feeble try by the Edo State Authorities by means of the state appearing 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 completely ridiculous but in addition exposes the federal government’s ignorance and showcases its lack of substance, imaginative and prescient, and a improvement agenda for the state and its folks,” Osagie stated.
“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 continuing efforts by varied 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 extra enhance 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 stated.
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