Jerry Nnubia, chairman of the Anambra state chapter of
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), wants to know why workers should be victims of
an economic downturn when they are not remembered in times of economic
prosperity.
Speaking on Tuesday at a rally in solidarity with Nasarawa
workers who were allegedly brutalised by the police while protesting the
reduction of their wages by the state government on July 29, he said that any
governor who could not pay salaries should resign. “Why should workers be victims of every economic doom? When
we have economic boom nobody remembers workers,” he said. “Our position is that any governor that can’t pay workers’
salaries should resign. Why haven’t the governors sliced their wages and those
of their aides?
“We are here today to show solidarity with our members in
Nasarawa state who were killed and injured by overzealous policemen at the gate
of government house, Nasarawa for opposing a slice in their salary by the state
governor, Tanko Al-Makura.”
The Anambra NLC chairman said it was laughable that salary
paid when a bag of rice was sold for N9, 000 is the same salary being paid now
that the price a bag of rice has risen to N23,000.
“A bag of rice today is N23,000 or more and their minimum
wage is N18,000. This is laughable,” he said.
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