Minimum Wage: Governors, Senators, Reps Should Also Earn N62k Proposed By FG-Mbaka

Controversial Catholic priest, Rev Fr Ejike Mbaka has disclosed that state governors and members of the national assembly including Senators and Reps members should also earn the N62,000 minimum wage proposed by the federal government.

He made this known while speaking in a recent interview with African Independent Television AIT.

“If we decide to give labour N60,000 or N62,000, why not generalise it to the house of assembly members, senatorial members, house of representative members, and governors?

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“All of them are civil servants. So, are the others slaves? I cannot imagine why somebody can amass billions and billions as a sitting allowance, wardrobe allowance, newspaper allowance, vehicle allowance and what they call suffering allowance.

“The people that should have such allowances should be the poor masses in the villages.

“As teachers, how much are they being paid? Our nurses and doctors, how much are they being paid? Let us be realistic, our civil servants that wake from Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

“They wake up early and return late. How much are they being paid? And look at the level of inflation in the country.”

Mbaka asked the government to “speedily” address the minimum wage issue with the organised labour to avoid another strike.

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The cleric said it is a matter of handling the bull by the horn tactfully but very speedily because “if they are not careful, this crisis of a thing can be hijacked and nobody knows the ripples effect”.

“We can push these poor Nigerians to the point of rebellion. That is my fear. All of us were in Lagos that day, we couldn’t come back,” the cleric said.

“Just like a joke the labour people entered into the airport and stopped every operation and if this happens again it might tantamount to what nobody dreams or what we dream but out of fear we cannot release it to the public.