Nasarawa govt. ready to pay N70,000 minimum wage: Official
Nasarawa government says that it is ready to pay the new N70,000 minimum wage to civil servants in the state.
Peter Ahemba, the senior special assistant (SSA) to Gov. Abdullahi Sule on public affairs, stated this on Tuesday in Lafia when he visited the office of the Correspondents’ Chapel, Nasarawa state.
He said that the payment of the new minimum wage to civil servants would not only improve their welfare but would also boost their productivity.
“The issue of N70,000 minimum wage is no longer news. President Ahmed Bola Tinubu had approved the payment of the said amount to workers.
“Gov. Abdullahi Sule’s administration is also ready to pay the N70,000 to civil servants in the state.
“The governor had made it clear that he is willing to pay the new minimum wage to civil servants in the state,” he said.
On the nationwide protest, the governor’s aide appealed to the people to end the protest and toe the path of dialogue and peace, giving the fact that some of their grievances were already being addressed by the government.
“The constitution has provided for citizens to exercise their feelings through peaceful protests. However, government will not allow any form of criminality – looting of property in the guise of protest,” he said.
Mr Ahemba noted that there was no massive protest in Nasarawa state as a result of Mr Sule’s laudable policies and programmes geared towards addressing the hardship being faced by the people of the state.
He emphasised that dialogue remained the best means of resolving grievances, not protest.
The SSA also said that Mr Sule’s administration would continue to support efforts at the provision of adequate power supply in the state in order to boost its industrialisation drive as well as the socio-economic activities of the people.
He said that the state government had made a giant stride in the development of infrastructure, adding that the ongoing construction of a flyover and underpass in Lafia would ease traffic congestion in the metropolis and add to the aesthetics of the state capital.
(NAN)
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