Don’t consider any amount below N250,000 – Timi Frank tells organized labour after Judges salaries were increased
Comrade Timi Frank, former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the APC, urged the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress to reject any federal minimum wage offer below N250,000.
In a Friday statement from Abuja, Frank accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of double standards in salary decisions, arguing that the same urgency shown in passing a 300 percent salary increase for judges should apply to workers.
Frank noted: “How can you increase the salary of an arm of government that is already earning a humongous salary by 300 per cent and add peanuts to the paltry N30,000 that workers have been compelled to live with in this country as minimum wage in the last five years?
“Why did the President send an Executive Bill to the National Assembly to effect a 300 per cent upward review in the salaries of judicial office holders but set up a tripartite committee to negotiate a “starvation wage” (apologies to NLC President Joe Ajaero) for suffering Nigerian workers instead of a “living wage” he promised them on assumption of office in May last year?”
“Any amount below N250,000.00 cannot be considered a decent wage for Nigerian workers considering the present socio-economic hardship in the country.
