…As NASU Calls For Immediate Implementation
BY ANDREW IKEHI
As agitation for the immediate implementation of the approved New Minimum Wage (NMW) thickens, the Delta State council of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has said that it would resist every attempt by both the Public and Private sector employers in the State in short-changing its workforce. The State Chairman of the Congress, Comrade Goodluck Ofobruku said this during the just concluded two-day Regular Trade Group Council meeting of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) held at the Federal College of Education (Technical), Asaba, the Delta State capital.
Comrade Ofobruku who spoke through the State Secretary of the Congress, Comrade Enekhawore Acrobat, enjoined the various employers of labour in the State to adhere strictly with the approved term plate in the payment of the approved N70,000 New Minimum Wage.
The State NLC boss said that the State chapter of the Congress would stop at nothing in ensuring that the various sections of employers of labour in the State comply with the approved term plate. He enjoined workers in the State to be patient as according to him, the State NLC is being carried along in the implementation process.
Meanwhile, the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) has called for immediate implementation of the new minimum wage.
This formed part of resolution reached at the end of its two-day regular Trade Group Council meeting held at the Federal College of Education (Technical), Asaba, the Delta State capital. The Trade Group Chairman and Deputy President of the Association, Comrade Ogunmokun Samuel Oladapo who made the call in his address at the event, urged President Bola Almed Tinubu to ensure an immediate implementation of the wage increase as well as payment of the arrears.
The call according to the NASU boss, had become necessary as it would go a long way in ameliorating the pains Nigerians are currently going through as a result of the present economic hardship.
Speaking further, Comrade Oladapo, while bemoaning what he called the growing rate of infrastructural deficit in the country, also, expressed worry over the current security challenge bedeviling the country.
He said, “The alarming rate at which insecurity is spreading in Nigeria’s nooks and crannies calls for the interrogation of what governments at all levels are doing to check the situation. “One must appreciate the fact that Nigeria is under policed and in dire need of better policing with modern gadgets and equipment. “As the criminals are advancing in their crooked ways, the police must employ advanced superior technology to outsmart them” NASU boss said.
In his address of welcome, the Branch Chairman of NASU, Federal College of Education (Technical), Asaba, Comrade Sylvester Onyeshidi, lauded the school management for the symbiotic relationship between it and the staff.
