Workers in Kwara state joined their counterparts across the country to commemorate this year’s workers Day.
Speaking on the significance of the celebration in his message to the workers, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, promised to implement another minimum wage as soon as all processes were concluded.
He said the state government would continue to review it’s responses within current realities.
According to him workers are an integral component of governance that drives governmental activities geared towards better socioeconomic growth and development of the state.
AbdulRazq said his administration
has introduced a monthly transport support, otherwise known as wage award, staggered working days, and implemented various promotion and other welfare packages that are meant to strengthen the spending powers of the workers.
He explained that the state government had rolled out different layers of support to the general public in it’s holistic approach to lessen the impacts of fuel subsidy removal .
In their seperate remarks the Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Kwara state Branch Comrade Murtala Olayinka and his counterpart from the Trade Union Congress (TUC) Comrade Olufemi urged the state government to quickly constitute the minimum wage committee towards implementation of a new minimum wage for workers.
They appealed to Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq to set an example as Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum by implementing the federal government minimum wage when it is passed into law.
Cov/Ali Muhammad Rabi’u.
