The public and private sectors are being asked by Senator Adams Oshiomhole, who represents the Edo North Senatorial District, to pay their staff members the new minimum salary of N35,000 before Christmas.
At the 8th Quadrennial Delegates Conference of the Non-Academics Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions in Abuja on Tuesday, Oshiomhole, a former governor of Edo State, made this statement.
He said, “Now that you have N35,000, there are workers from different states. Are all the state governments implementing it? The answer is no. Why should it be no, and why are they at peace? Your members are not at peace in the States.
He added that the new minimum wage cut across all work sectors in the country.
“It should not be a selective application. The N35,000 must affect all workers. It has to go around all workers in Nigeria, whether public or private, that is the logic of nationwide strike.
“Please tell the NLC President that those are the issues that they must solve so that this December, nobody goes home without that N35,000
“Whether such a worker is working for the federal, state, local government or the private sector, that N35,000 must be paid. If you don’t pay, there will be no Christmas for you as an employer whether public or private sector.”
