Why We Can Not Pay New Minimum Wage – Governors

Governor Yari

The administrator of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State, has uncovered that governors are not against the survey of the lowest pay permitted by law but rather come up short on the ability to pay for it. 

The Nigerian Labor Congress (NLC) are requesting N30,000 as the lowest pay permitted by law yet the governors proposed N20,000 while the national government said it could bear the cost of N24,000. 

Addressing newsmen after the NGF meeting on Wednesday, the Zamfara representative said the issue was not simply on the concurred figure to be paid by the governors however the "capacity or assets to deal with that concurred the lowest pay permitted by law." 

Yari stated: "The issue of the state is the ability to pay what is concurred. As we are talking today, we are battling with N18,000. A portion of the states are paying 35 percent, somewhere in the range of 50 percent and still a few states have pay overdue debts. 

"Thus, it isn't about just checking on it yet how we will get the assets to cook for it." 

The director of the gathering said Ayuba Wabba, national leader of NLC, was welcome to brief the discussion on states' execution in the utilization of London and Paris Club discounts which the central government dispensed for installment of pay rates. 

He said a few states had recorded some advancement in accordance with the condition they marked with the central government however some were all the while owing unpaid debts.