Akwa Ibom State Head of Civil Service, Elder Effiong Essien says the state government is willing to abide by any agreed minimum wage for workers in the state. This is in view of the ongoing negotiations between the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Federal Government for a new minimum wage.
Fielding questions from journalists on Thursday at his office in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital, Essien urged Organised Labour to be realistic and ask for what states will be able to pay even as he noted that the Akwa Ibom State Government is ready to go by any amount accepted at the end of the day. He said, 'Every worker wants increment in wage. But increase in salary in the civil service has a process and not strictly a state matter, it is a concurrent matter that comes from the federal.
'Sometimes the processes of the civil service are truncated by ambitious politicians. When a civil servant says that something must follow due process he will be blacklisted. As in what we witness today, you want to do posting of a staff, you see a paramount ruler coming to talk about posting of his relation or when there will be employment, you see politicians or anybody trying to influence without allowing due process to be followed.
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