Jibrin Banchir, the state chapter of NLC gave the call in Jos, the state capital when members of the NLC staged a peaceful protest to seek a legal endorsement of the new minimum pay package, News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, reports.
He explained that Buhari should communicate to the National Assembly so it can be legalised.
“It is pertinent for the President to send his approval to the National Assembly to ensure that the new minimum wage is legalised.
“The approval of the increment cannot be implemented without being legalized. The President should do this without any hesitation,” he said.
Lamenting that the fight for better wages had been on for four years,he stated that workers in Ghana had their wages increased without such hassles.
The workers held various placards with inscriptions such as “N30,000 minimum wage is a right, pay it before elections or be voted out”, “we demand full implementation, we say no to percentage implementation”, among others.
The workers took their protest to the Government House where the Plateau Deputy Governor, Soni Tyoden, commended them for the peaceful protest and expressed the state government’s readiness to pay the new amount.
