President of the trade union Congress, TUC, Comrade Festus Osifo has revealed the outcome of its meeting between the Labour and the Federal Government. Recall the TUC gave the federal government two weeks ultimatum to address Nigerian workers concerning wage review or risk an industrial action from Nigerian workers.
Osifo said Nigerian workers were becoming impatient by the day following the unabated inflation occasioned by the removal of fuel subsidy by president Tinubu administration which has brought hardship on Nigerians.
The TUC chairman made this known during an interview with Channel TV program, “Politics Today” saying the Minister of Labour, Simon Bako Lalong, informed the labour that he had audience with president Tinubu and the minister of Finance, Wale Edun, where he confirmed that the issue of minimum wage has been concluded and reviewed.
According to him, “The minister of labour told us that he had an audience with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the minister of finance and had reviewed the issue of wage award. But the president asked them to fine-tune the issues before he makes the announcement.”
He said, “We are going to monitor distribution of palliatives in states to make sure the scheme is implemented appropriately. We want to see the template of the implementation that is why we engaged the federal government on this issue. We also raised issues around taxation and CNG (Compressed Natural Gas).
He added, “The minister told us all these issues would be streamlined but because the president has travelled we should give him an extra two weeks. We said no. We don’t have an extra two weeks to give. After more discussions, he said the president would make proper announcement next week.”
