Atiku & Buhari. |
The attention of the Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation, has been drawn to a statement from the Presidency
denying President Buhari’s earlier pledge to pay the new minimum wage of
₦30,000 agreed with the Nigerian Labour Congress and other labour affiliates in
a signed communiqué.
This approbation and reprobation
is characteristic of the Buhari administration and is evidence of the lack of
leadership at the very top that is putting our economy in peril.
Just two weeks ago, two of the
world’s largest banks, HSBC and UBS, pulled out of Nigeria citing lack of
policy stability as their reason. This same reason was given by Procter and
Gamble when they pulled out last year. In the span of the three years that this
administration has been in office, more than 500 companies have pulled out of
Nigeria for similar reasons. Nigeria under President Buhari has become
synonymous with policy flip flopping.
A government is only as reliable
as its word and if its word is not reliable then nothing else about the
government will be stable. This is why Nigeria suffered from a recession under
this administration and is right now at risk of another recession.
At the risk of repeating
ourselves, we urge the Buhari administration to note that Nigerian workers are
the goose that lays the golden egg that top members of this government are
enjoying to the detriment of those laying the egg.
We are aware that both President
Buhari and Vice President Osinbajo, despite living and feeding at the public
expense, collect a hardship allowance of 50% of their annual basic salary,
whereas, the long suffering Nigerian workers, who are the main sufferers of the
hardship caused by the incompetence of this administration, do not have any
hardship allowance and are expected to live on the unliveable minimum wage of
the Buhari government.
It is a testament to how badly we
have treated our workforce over the last three years that Nigeria was
officially declared the world headquarters for extreme poverty by the World
Poverty Clock and the World Economic Forum.
We can only change this by paying
our workers a living wage as opposed to the starvation wages now paid to them
by the Buhari administration.
We therefore call on President Muhammadu
Buhari to keep faith with the agreement his government freely reached with
labour and affirm the new minimum wage.
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