Nyako to NLC: ‘Don’t be in a hurry to go on strike’

Governor Murtala Nya ko yesterday told the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) not to be in a hurry to go on strike, as it is counter-productive.
While reminding  labour about the  first article in the international labour law which is ‘no work, no pay’, the governor urged them to team up with the government to work out programmes that would in near future raise the minimum wage far higher than N18,000 per month.
Nyako who observed that even the N18000 is small to meet the needs of the families, assured that government was in support of decent standard of living for all.
“My feeling is that N18,000 a month is too small. A man with his wife and two children depending on N18,000 per month that is just about less than $1 per person. 
“This is not the type of standard of living we want Nigerians to have, Nigerians should have much higher standard of living. 
“But, my contention here is that the labour and the state government should sit down to work out action that will make us earn much more money so that we can pay them comfortably.
“We are all brothers and sisters whether you are in labour or not we are in the same country. We want to please one another, we want to make sure everybody has a decent standards of living and threatening to go on strike is counter-productive.
“So, let’s not threaten one another. Let’s agree to work out our programmes that will allow us in the very near future to raise the minimum wage far higher than N18,000 per month,” he said.
On subsidy removal, the governor said, “It is because some of us from rural states have not benefited from subsidy for donkey year’s. For many years, it is hijacked and right now we are paying N165 per litre and you say you have subsidy, what subsidy? Let it be off and let’s have the money for development.”

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