Akwa Ibom workers grumble over delayed N70,000 minimum wage implementation, threaten strike

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Akwa Ibom workers grumble over delayed N70,000 minimum wage implementation, threaten strike
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Akwa Ibom State civil servants have described as 'disturbing' the perceived silence of Governor Umo Eno over the implementation of the new minimum wage of N70,000 in the state. They vowed to embark on industrial action if the state government remained mum and refused to do the needful.

Akwa Ibom State civil servants have described as 'disturbing' the perceived silence of Governor Umo Eno over the implementation of the new minimum wage of N70,000 in the state. They vowed to embark on industrial action if the state government remained mum and refused to do the needful.

' Another civil servant said, 'Our families are starving as we are faced with the highest food inflation ever in the history of the Nigerian nation. 'Unfortunately, the labour in this state has become inactive to champion workers' cause.' Recall that Governor Eno, while the discussion on the new salary structure for the nation's workforce lasted, had promised to pay whatever the federal government arrived at.

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