Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has instructed that the salary structure for the new national minimum wage be reworked to correct the errors observed in the consequential adjustments.
Otti gave the instructions during a meeting with the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Trade Union Congress and their Affiliate Bodies in Umuahia the state capital on Tuesday.
The governor said that he received reports of errors noticed in the payment of the minimum wage which the state started its implementation in October.
Otti assured all that his government would be engaging with the leadership of the organised labour in a few days to correct any error.
He said, “I have instructed my people to go and look at it again. In the next few days we will be engaging with the leadership of the Labour so that we will make necessary adjustments. So, my team will go back and look into it”.
The governor described it as uncalled for the listing of Abia as one of the states yet to commence implementation of the new national minimum wage, saying that Abia is one of the first states to implement the policy right from October 2024.
Otti announced that he would pay both the December salary and 13th month salary of the workers before December 20.
He assured the members of the organised labour that the government is their own government.
The governor, who frowned at the attitude of Abia pensioners who, after receiving their many years of pension arrears in line with the agreement entered with the government now accusing the government of deceiving them.
He noted that his administration met on ground unpaid pension arrears dating from 2014 and has defrayed the same, noting that since April this year, Abia pensioners have been receiving their full pension on the 28th of every month. He thanked the Concerned Abia Pensioners for speaking up on the matter.
“The first time I met with the NUP leadership, they were clear to me to say that what was important to them was to be able to get the government to commit to paying them 100 percent of their pension from that month, and forget about the arrears and I felt it was not fair”he said.
The State Chief Executive, while describing Abia’s work force as a major vehicle that brought him to power, equally thanked the workers for remaining major stakeholders in the rebuilding agenda of the state government. He said that the essence of the meeting was to have an interaction with the Abia workforce and to thank them for their support to his administration which has changed the image of the state for the better.
In his reaction, the chairman Abia State chapter of the NLC, Ogbonnaya Okoro, while appreciating the governor for his benevolence to the Abia workforce and his decision to correct the errors observed in the payment said that they would present other issues of concern to the governor later.
He assured Otti of the sustained support of the workers to ensure he succeeded in office.
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