The Benue State Government and the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, have dismissed speculations that it plans to pay state civil servants N40,000 as minimum wage against the N71,000 signed into law by the president.
Social media platforms in the state were rife with speculations that Governor Alia had during a meeting with workers, proposed to pay N40,000 as minimum wage to civil servants. This was disclosed, Friday by the Technical Adviser on Media, Publicity and Communication to the Governor, Solomon Iorpev. He said the Gov Alia administration will not renege in its obligations to pay workers and other cadres of staff their due wages and salaries as approved by law.
He corroborated Iorpev's claims, saying during the negotiation, four different options were presented to the people but N40,000 was not among the options. “What was put forward, and then I think, one is N70,000, the other is N75,000 and then N77,000. So, the one we opted for was that of the 75,000. “Plans and all other arrangements have been concluded but we didn’t know why it was not implemented this month. But we are giving the government the benefit of the doubt.
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