Minimum wage: Governors consider massive job cuts
Category: Nigerian National News
There are strong indications that some state governors are considering reducing their states’ workforce as the downturn in the economy worsens.
Speaking on Thursday on the N18,000 minimum wage, the Chairman, Nigerian Governors Forum, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, said it was important that government representatives met with labour unions to take a decision on whether to review the wage or to downsize.
Yari, who is the governor of Zamfara State, spoke with State House correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari behind closed-doors inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
While saying the NGF should not be seen as anti-labour, the governor said the sharp drop in oil price, which had resulted in huge reduction in federal allocations to states, had made the decision imperative.
He added that with some states getting as small as N55m monthly allocation, there was no way they would continue to borrow to service overheads.
Yari said Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State and Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State could afford to kick against the decision to review the minimum wage downward because their states could survive on Internally Generated Revenue. The governor said the governors would meet the President and his team and experts with a view to coming out with the way forward and how to handle the poor state of the nation’s economy.
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