Kebbi Government decides on new minimum wage

This is in response to an article published by SaharaReporters on August 26 about how Kebbi workers bemoaned pay deductions following Governor Idris’ failure to pay the N70,000 minimum wage. Nasir Idris, the governor of Kebbi State, has consented to pay state employees the newly approved national minimum salary of N70,000.

The state government was prepared to pay the new minimum wage, the governor revealed to labor leaders on Friday. The governor was one of the nation’s leading figures in the organized labor movement before to his election.

Although some critics deemed it hasty to conclude that his administration had failed to enact the new salary, he pledged to make the payment as soon as the federal government provided a blueprint. “Even the federal government, which authorized the new wage, has not yet started paying,” he declared. This will continue until the specifics are worked out. The NLC and my government will confer when we are prepared to determine the optimal plan of action for execution.”

Staff pay in August the governor gave an explanation, saying that “the meager amount the government deducted from workers’ salaries was the annual development levy of N500, which has been implemented since the defunct Sokoto state and is allowed by law.”

“Only N11 million was taken out of the workers’ paychecks,” he claimed. Murtala Usman, the state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), had earlier expressed gratitude to the governor and called him the “most labor friendly” in the nation.

Source: Sahara Reporters