Umahi Approves N30, 000 New Minimum Wage For Workers

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Umahi Approves N30, 000 New Minimum Wage  For Workers
By Joyce Aroh, Abakaliki
Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi has approved the N30, 000 New National Minimum wage for the State civil servants while promising to continue to work for their welfare in the state.
Governor Umahi said this while Addressing workers  during the May 1st Workers Day Celebration at the Pa Ngele Oruta Township Stadium.
“In my presentation recently, I did make promise that our state shall not be the first and will shall not be last to pay the new national minimum wage.
“So I therefore approve the new minimum wage for our civil servants in the state”
Governor Umahi further said that his administration placed high premium on workers’ welfare adding “In my administration, all I have done in the last four years is to address your challenges and develop workable blueprint to address your problems and I am happy to say that within the years under review, a tremendous milestones have been achieved in terms of prioritizing your welfare”
“Without boring you with the obvious, it has been my opinion that workers in this country are not yet at their best in terms of being taken care of, but with various programmes I initiated in my administration, I can beat my chest to say that we were not oblivious of these challenges staring you in the face but we have initiated
measures to ameliorate your sufferings.
“My administration has increased workers’ salaries by five percent in the face of the dwindling federal allocation accruable to states with Ebonyi at the lowest ebb. Beyond the increment in workers’ salaries, we have given workers over N4b loan to access to go into agriculture to help them as no amount of wage increase can address the conflicting
priorities of workers in this country”.
Earlier , the Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress, Ebonyi State, Comrade Leo Nkah commended the Governor for approving necessary welafare allowances and appealed for speedy implementation of the New Pension Law act of 2014.
He said Civil servants in the state are mostly grateful to the governor for listening to their pleas and thanked him for the provision of N4b for civil servants to access to help them go into agriculture to sustain their living.