Bola Ahmed Tinubu, President of the federal republic of Nigeria has appealed to the various state governors to start paying the 25k wage award to pensioners.
As you know with the removal of the subsidy, inflation has skyrocketed with the average Nigerian not being able to afford basic necessities to survive. This initiative was meant to help serve as a palliative way of reducing the effect of the subsidy removal on the people.
Following the removal of the fuel subsidy, President Tinubu announced the payment of the wage award pending the implementation of the new minimum wage.
The government made this promise last year, however they are yet to fulfill this as the retirees are yet to receive the payment, despite federal workers and some state workers receiving their palliative which is very sad and appalling
The plea was made at the official start of the agricultural mechanization revolution for food security and the commissioning of the remodeled domestic terminal of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Airport in Minna, Niger State.
The president said and I quote “If all of you, the sub-nationals have been paying the wages award, pending the determination of the new salary wage. Let all the states start paying the wages award. Whatever they are taking now plus the wage award would relieve the public.
“Please, I am not giving an order, I am appealing to you states, start paying the wages awards, let everyone start paying it. It is a relief to the people. The mechanism is the fact that it won’t be inflationary if we announce the new salary wage in a few weeks or months, they would have gotten used to the basic wages of N30,000 plus the wages award, and it will have a dampening effect on the market. Please get sub-nationals together and NEC should adopt this.”
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