With the recent agreement between the Organised Labour and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on a new national minimum wage, the President of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Joe Ajaero has revealed that the Labour rejected an earlier proposal of N250,000 minimum wage and increase in petrol prices by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
9News Nigeria reports that President Tinubu, in a meeting on Thursday at the Presidential Villa, agreed to pay N70,000 as the national minimum wage for Nigerian workers.
Ajaero, while answering questions on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme on Thursday shortly after the meeting with the President said Labour movement can make sacrifices without allowing Nigerians to suffer further on the increase on fuel pump price.
“Accepting N70,000 was the best way to save Nigerians from further hardship. At last week’s meeting, the President brought a proposal that ‘I will give you N250,000 If you allow me to equally increase the pump price of petroleum products’ and we said, No, we need to go and consult’.
“Today, we went there to tell him, No’. The Labour movement can make sacrifices without allowing Nigerians to suffer further on the increase in the pump price of petroleum products”, he said.
-9News Nigeria.
