By Dada Ahmed in Lokoja
The Kogi state Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress,(NLC), Comr.Onuh Edoka has called on the State Government to return to the negotiating table and conclude arrangement for the implementation of the N30,000 new minimum wage.
Edoka made the call at the First Annual Regular Trade Group Council Meeting of Non Academic Staff of Educational and Associated Institution (NASU), SUBEB, STEB, Post Primary Schools, holding in Lokoja.
The NLC Chairman,who lamented that Kogi State remained among few states yet to implement the new minimum wage, described the development as not acceptable in view of the rising cost of living, occasioned by inflation.
The NLC Chairman also called on the present administration in the state to add value to the civil service, in terms of payment of salary incremental steps and cash backing promotion, which he noted had not been effected in the last five years.
He urged the state government not to view the civil service as made up of people who did not matter, saying that as civil servants, ” We have families to cater for and should not been seen as just mere civil servants.”
Edoka, however, lauded the Governor, Yahaya Bello for his robust civil service reforms, pointing out that “in KogiState Civil Service today, you no longer have issues of fake certificates, age falsification among other values.”
