The organized labour has called on state governors who cannot pay the new minimum wage to resign.
Deputy National President of the Trade Union Congress, Tommy Etim, disclosed this is in a statement in reaction to a statement by some governors that they cannot pay the new minimum wage.
“There is no minimum wage. Every segment of it should be implemented. For the governors, we have said it very clearly. If you cannot pay minimum wage, please resign because you were voted for governance not for only infrastructure.”
“If you build the entire infrastructure and the people are not living to use it, who will use it? When they were campaigning did they tell us that? They didn’t tell us that. They make use of the poor to get to the top and when they get there, they start thinking outside the box. All the money they spent in electioneering campaigns, if they applied that to build infrastructure, to develop the revenue generation that would have solved some socio-economic challenges in their domain,” Etim said.
