Minimum wage: NLC national leadership backs Zamfara workers, threatens to ground State

By Adeleye Kunle

The national secretariat of the Nigeria labour Congress (NLC) has threatened to mobilize civil servants to Zamfara State for a solidarity industrial action if the State government refuses to implement the payment of the constitutional national minimum wage of N30,000 at the end of the 21 days ultimatum.

This was contained in a letter signed by the National President of the Congress, Comrade Ayuba Wabba.

He said that Zamfara is the only State in the federation that had refused to implement the national minimum wage which was duly signed into law since April, 2019.

“NLC leadership believes that the refusal of the State government to implement the national minimum wage to all categories of workers in the State is an affront to the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which the Governor swore to protect,” the statement said.

He added that, “the national minimum wage law is a creation of the second schedule of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Like every other law, it is incumbent on all to respect and adhere to its provisions, especially those occupying elected public offices who are morally expected to show public example of being law abiding.

“Unfortunately, this is not the case in political leadership in Zamfara which under your administration has chosen to trample underfoot a law as important as national minimum wage act