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Kano, Edo, Rivers, KOGI, others express readiness to pay new minimum wage

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Governments of states Kano Zamfara, Kwara, Rivers, Kogi and Edo, have confirmed their readiness to pay the new N30,000 minimum wage.

On his part, Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano State, confirmed to The Nation that, “we are ready to pay N30,000 monthly salary, because the welfare of our workers is paramount to anything and we will always give it. We will pay the N30,000,” he said.

Also, Governor Abdul Aziz Yari Abubakar said in Gusau that  Zamfara State under his watch would do everything possible to ensure the welfare of workers in the state does not suffer.

Yari who spoke through his Senior Special Assistant on Media, Publicity and Public Enlightenment, Malam Ibrahim Dosara said that any state government with the interest of workers at heart will ensure the quick implementation of the new minimum wage.

The Osun State government said it will await guidelines on payment of the N30,000 minimum wage.

The Chief Press Secretary to the state governor, Adesina Adeniyi, said since it is already a law the state will only wait for the implementation guidelines of the minimum wage.

The Kwara State government is also prepared for the payment of the new minimum wage, according to Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed’s  Senior Special Assistant on Media and Communications Dr Muyideen Akorede.

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Akorede recalled how the state government set up a committee headed by the Head of Service Modupe Susan to work out the modalities and sources of revenue for payment months before the president signed the new into law.

“The committee is expected to submit its report to Governor Ahmed in the next two weeks,” he said.

A similar committee was set up by the Kogi State government  and the government says  “laws are made to be obeyed and we are sure the Federal Government will make it convenient for states to pay the new minimum wage.”

It welcomed the signing of the bill into law adding: “a committee was set up to look into the modalities of making compliance easy. Kogi State will work with whatever is agreed by the Governors’ Forum.

“As a government, we will also look inwards to ensure we put smiles on the faces of our civil servants who have shown unprecedented cooperation with our administration.”

The Niger State government disposed to paying the new minimum wage

Kogi State governor, Abubakar Sani Bello will pay the new minimum wage of N30,000.

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Jide Orintunsin, the  Media and Publicity Coordinator to Governor Abubakar Bello said:”It will be recalled that the state workforce had a 25 per cent salary increase recently. This has placed the state higher than the former minimum wage.

“Governor Sani Bello, early this year,  had assured the state workforce of the new minimum wage at a special session he had with organised labour recently. He is committed to ensuring the welfare of the state workforce.”

The Delta State government said yesterday it was looking at the law to enable it take an appropriate action.

“We have not read the details of the new law since it was only signed yesterday by Mr. President. When we do we will look at our processes and of course Delta State is not going to be an outcast. We will look at it and take a decision,” Charles Aniagwu, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa said in Asaba.

He said focus should be on the ability of the organised private sector to pay the new wage structure, while expressing doubts over the ability of many businesses to cope.

“In my opinion, media outfits should be interested in the private sector. How many companies can afford the new minimum wage as the law also binds them,” he said, and expressed fears that the new law might  force many in the organised private sector to lay off workers which may be detrimental to the economy.

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The Rivers state Governor Nyesom Wike said  he would comply with the provisions of the new minimum wage law.

Wike who spoke through the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Emma Okah,  a lawyer in Port Harcourt,  the state capital yesterday,  said “Rivers state Government will pay whatever is prescribed as the new minimum wage bill.”

The Special Adviser to Governor Godwin Obaseki on Media and Communication Strategy, Crusoe Osagie, said  that the new minimum wage would be paid to Edo workers.

Osagie was however silent on when the state government would commence payment.

He said the state government is labour friendly.

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