New Minimum Wage: N30,000 Is No Longer Acceptable, We Demand N50,000 – NLC

Chairman of Lagos State chapter of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Funmi Sessi said they would receive nothing less than N50,000 as minimum wage because of the special nature of the state.

Sessi stated this while addressing newsmen following the gathering of civil servants in front of the Lagos State House of Assembly after a peaceful march from Ikeja under bridge yesterday.

According to the NLC chairman, Lagos State workers presently faced more hardship to get to work, hence the reason why N30,000 could no more be acceptable.

“For a simple reason, Lagos is a special state, transportation and house rent are higher and so many hazards on the roads. When you go to work, market, it’s not the same as Ogun State. Rent in Lagos has been increased by 400 percent, transport, 200 percent.

“Our demand is that no junior worker besides the N50,000 minimum wage should go home with less than N15,000 hazard allowance.”

According to Sessi, the workers were not well remunerated, noting that things have continued to deteriorate.

“The leaders are only enriching themselves. When Senate and House of Representatives members collected their N30 million and N25 million welcome packages respectively, do you hear any news? But to pay N30,000 minimum wage which took two years to negotiate has become a problem.”

Meanwhile, NLC disclosed that in Abia State, primary school teachers were owed three months, while secondary school teachers were last paid in October 2018.