{"id":123607,"date":"2019-06-04T17:22:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T16:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=123607"},"modified":"2019-06-04T21:22:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T20:22:47","slug":"n30000-minimum-wage-i-dont-believe-buhari-will-scam-nigerian-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=123607","title":{"rendered":"N30,000 Minimum Wage: I Don’t Believe Buhari Will Scam Nigerian Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bobboi Kaigama, President-General of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), has dismissed insinuations that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government is not sincere enough to implement the new minimum wage of N30,000.
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Kaigama said this on Monday in Akure during the fifth Triennial Delegates\u2019 Conference of the Ondo State chapter of the union where Com. Helen Odofin emerged the new State Chairman.
\nKaigama insisted that the new minimum wage as approved by President Muhammadu Buhari was not a scam.<\/p>\n

Other newly elected officers included Clement Fatuase \u2013 Vice Chairman; Soladoye Ekundayo -Ex-officio; Dayo Adebiyi -State Secretary; Tope Akinsola \u2013 Asst Sec; Taimiyu Olufemi \u2013 Treasurer;
\nOthers are; Ikechukwu Nneke \u2013 Fin Sec; Femi Owolabi -PRO; Olusegun Akinbolasere -Auditor I; Makinde Ayesoro \u2013 Chairman.<\/p>\n

Swearing-in the new officers, Kaigama who was represented by the Secretary-General of TUC, Mr Musa Lawal, noted that a presidential technical committee to work out new salary templates had been set up and expected to submit its report next week.<\/p>\n

Kaigama explained that labour unions and their leaders were not sleeping.<\/p>\n

The TUC president assured that organized labor was following developments at the committee to ensure workers were not shortchanged with the new minimum wage table.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo no no, we are not sleeping, the battle for the minimum wage is very straight and we are not sleeping on it, what we are currently doing is to create a template.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that is why we are trying to appeal to those that are receiving more than N30,000, is not something you do by magic, it\u2019s technical and that is why we (government and labour) set-up (Presidential) technical committee to look into the matter.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t believe government can scam the workers because I believe in the welfarism of everybody and I don\u2019t have doubt in President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s administration either to scam or not,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The outgone State Chairman of TUC, Mr Soladoye Ekundayo, advised the new executive members to make a judicious use of their time and energies by attending to issues that affect workers.<\/p>\n

Odofin, the new TUC chairman, in her acceptance speech said \u201cthe congress and its teeming members have at this time asked me to take lead in the struggle for workers welfare and I have accepted\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Ondo state Chairman of the Nigeria labour Congress (NLC), Mr Sunday Adeleye, said labour unions in the state would start negotiations on the new minimum wage as soon as the federal government comes up with an acceptable template.<\/p>\n

Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, represented by his Special Adviser, Mr Alaba Isijola reiterated his administration\u2019s determination to improve on the welfare of workers.
\nAkeredolu reassured that the state government would implement the new minimum wage whenever an agreeable template was released.\n <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bobboi Kaigama, President-General of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), has dismissed insinuations that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government is not sincere enough to implement the new minimum wage of N30,000. Kaigama said this on Monday in Akure during the fifth Triennial Delegates\u2019 Conference of the Ondo State chapter of the union where Com. Helen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,3,4],"tags":[2658,41,3317,62],"class_list":["post-123607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","category-news","category-politics","tag-a","tag-buhari","tag-nigerian-workers","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}