By Ajibola Adedoye
Comrade Prince Adewale Adeyanju, Acting President, Nigeria Labour Congress( NLC) has denied reaching any concrete agreement with the federal government and the employers on the proposed New Minimum Wage as claimed by the Tripartite National Minimum Wage Negotiation Committee and submitted to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
In a statement titled “Tinubu’s Democracy Day Speech and National Minimum Wage Negotiation: May Be Accurate In History, Inaccurate In Reality”, Adeyanju expressed his dissatisfaction on the way the issue of the ongoing national minimum wage negotiations is being handled by the Tripartite National Minimum Wage Negotiation Committee leading to President Tinubu’s address on the matter during his Democracy Day speech on Wednesday, June 12, 2024.
In his words” The NLC anticipated that the counsels of the President would have told him we neither reached any agreement with the Federal Government or the employers on the base figure for a public minimum wage not on its other factors. Our demands still remain Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira (N 250,000) only and we haven’t been given any compelling measures to change this position which we consider a great concession by Nigerian workers during the tripartite negotiation process.
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“We’re thus surprised at the submission of Mr. President over a supposed agreement. We believe that he may have been misled into believing that there was an agreement with the NLC and TUC, there was none and it’s important that we let the President, Nigerians and other stakeholders understand this incontinently to avoid a blend-up in the ongoing discussion around the National Minimum Wage. We’ve also not seen a copy of the document submitted to him and won’t accept any doctored document.
“Still, we want to reaffirm and believe that the President on whose table the Tripartite Committee’s report presently resides would prepare an Executive Bill which content will reflect the true demand of Nigerian workers. We suppose this is an occasion for him to demonstrate his love for Nigerian workers and millions by shuffling the pieces of advise that may be coming from those whose intentions are continuously foccued on hurting the poor and floundering workers of Nigeria. Mr. President shouldn’t allow these individualities and groups to sabotage his pledge of lifting Nigerian workers out of poverty” Adeyanju advised.
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