Zamfara State govt to implement National minimum wage next month
By IBRAHIM KANOMA
The Executive Governor of Zamfara State Bello Matawalle assures that his Administration will start implementing the thirty thousand naira National minimum wage to the entire civil servants in the state.
He stated this while receiving leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress NLC at Government House Gusau.
Governor Bello Matawalle said his administration has the feelings of the entire workers in the state as former civil servant, hence the decision of his Government to provide all the necessary entitlements to the workers.
In a press statement issued by Press Secretary to the Governor of the state Jamilu Iliyasu Birnin Magaji, Matawalle said the upliftment of workers and pensioners will continue to be accorded top priority by his administration, in order to meet the yearnings and welfare of Zamfara state workers for effective service delivery in the state.
The Governor who called on the organised Labour in the state to help the government by blocking all leakages and fraudulent acts among the civil servants for the government to provide all the needed support and welfare of the workers.
On the payment of gratuity to retired civil servants, Governor Bello Matawalle said the state Government will effect the full payment of pension and gratuity to them as soon as deductions from the state funds were stopped by December, this year.
He said his administration will build a befitting Labour House in Gusau, the state capital to enhance activities of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress as well as the organised Labour in the state.
He announced that the state Government has concluded arrangements to provide foodstuffs to the entire civil servants in the state on loan at a very subsidized prices.
Earlier, the state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress NLC, Comrade Sani Halliru and his counterpart of the Trade Union Congress TUC, Comrade Saidu Mudi Allahuwa said they were at the Government House to express their appreciation to the Governor for his approval to implement the thirty thousand Naira National minimum wage in Zamfara state with effect from the month of November this year.
The two labour leaders said the immediate intervention of Governor Bello Matawalle by approving the payment of the National minimum wage to the state workers has solved the lingering labour issues between the organised Labour and the state Government.
Comrade Sani Halliru and Comrade Saidu Mudi Allahuwa thanked Governor Bello Matawalle for reviewing the pension of retired permanent secretaries since the creation of Zamfara state to date and called for full payment of gratuities and other entitlements to all categories of retired civil servants in the state.
