Friday Olokor, AbujaNigerian workers on Monday threatened to embark on fresh strike following the refusal of the Federal Government to implement the new national minimum wage. With this turn of event, it is quite clear now that some fifth columnists in this administration are hell-bent on pushing President Muhammadu Buhari to enter into a collision course with millions of Nigerian workers in the Public Service. “It is indeed perplexing that political office holders whose monthly take-home pay runs into millions of Naira are the ones working behind the scene to ensure that public service employees especially core civil servants continue to receive starvation wages. The time for President Buhari to act is now.”The workers regretted that since the committee set up early this month by the government to work out the consequential adjustments arising from the new national minimum wage of N30,000.00 started to meet, the government has been playing politics with the intent of scuttling the implementation of the new new national minimum wage signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday April 18, 2019. “As things are right now, the government side is only prepared to pay peanuts to workers as an adjustment under the pretext that it will soon be undertaking general salary review in the public service”, the workers stated.

Source: Punch July 01, 2019 15:22 UTC