The lawmaker representing Bayelsa East Senatorial District , Ben Murray Bruce, has charged the thirty six governors of the country not to reduce the N18,000 minimum wage, stating that it is unjust for a government to contemplate reducing the workers pay.
“A worker with a family earns less than a member of the NYSC who earns ₦19,800. Reducing his pay is unconscionable! A man earning ₦18k struggles to pay rent, feed family & pay school fees. To reduce his pay is to punish his family. If FG & state govts dont pay workers well they invite workers to steal. To end corruption we must pay workers well,” he said in a series of tweets.
Recall that the 36 state governors have said that they can no longer pay the N18,000 minimum wage that was signed into law in March 2011 by former President Goodluck Jonathan, owing to the poor state of the economy
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