Minimum Wage: NGF not against Living Wage – Gov. Oyebanji
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Governor Biodun Oyebanji of Ekiti State has said that State Governors, under the aegis of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) are not against approval of a living wage for Nigerian workers.
Governor Oyebanji made this clarification at the 7th Quadrennial Delegates Conference of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) in Ado- Ekiti on Wednesday.
The Governor said what the NGF is clamouring for is fiscal federalism that would culminate in the ability and capability of individual states to pay.
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His words: “The NGF is not against the living wage, no Governor is against the minimum wage, but what we are saying is that it must reflect fiscal federalism, ability and capacity to pay.
“No governor wants to retrench. If there is a Minimum Wage today without a concurrent increment in what we are earning. No state can pay and that is the conversation we are having- that, look, we want to give you a living wage, but we must look at what comes to the states and whatever is in the best interest of the states and the workers, we will do.”
