From Umar Dankano, Yola
The federal government’s tripartite committee on national minimum wage has conducted a zonal public hearing for the six states of the North eastern region in Yola,the Adamawa State capital.
Declaring the public hearing open Thursday, Zonal Chairman of the hearing and President of the Nigeria Labour Congress NLC, Comrade Joe Ajaero said the platform was established by the federal government to reach a cogent and workable solutions in addressing the issues of salary and wages of Nigerian workers.
Comrade Ajaero announced that critical stakeholders from all the six North East states gathered in Yola to put heads together in advancing acceptable and fair numeration for civil servants noting that the present take home of a civil worker is nothing to ride home about considering the high cost of living these days.
Ajaero confessed to the fact that Nigerians are suffering these days advancing that the meeting is not a negotiating process but an avenue to hear live and collect data direct from stakeholders before reporting back to the main committee which would the negotiate with the government.
He also opined that a sperate interface he tagged”Market public hearing” need to be organized by government with a view to addressing the current high cost of living in the country lamenting that people are being faced with hardship in all strata of human endeavors.
In his welcome address the Adamawa State Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri stated that the meeting was a family gathering to discuss cogent and reasonable modalities to tackle the challenges facing the country.
Represented by the Deputy Governor,Professor Kaletapwa Farauta, Fintiri enjoined the stakeholders to advance submissions that would be a source of prospering solutions in addressing the wages of Nigerian workers.
