Gov. Adams Oshiomhole of Edo on Sunday
announced the increment of the National Minimum
Wage from N18,000 to N25, 000 with immediate
effect, for employees in the State Public Service.
He also promised prompt payment of outstanding
arrears of salary to the staff of Local Government
Councils in the state.
Oshiomhole who made the announcement on
Sunday at the grand finale of activities to mark the
2016 Workers Day, said that plans had also been
concluded to pay staff of Egor Local Government
Council who were being owned 13 months arrears
of salary, within the next two weeks.
Explaining why the council was omitted from the
bailout to local government councils in 2015, he
gave the assurance that the Edo Government had
been meeting with the Central Bank of Nigeria and
that within the next two weeks, the funds would be
released and staff of the council would be paid in
full.
He also explained the reason behind the non -
appointment of Caretaker Committees for the 18
local government councils in the state, after the
end of the tenure of the immediate-past local
government chairmen.
According to him, ``rather than appoint caretaker
committees for the councils and pay them because
they are politicians, we directed the Heads of
Personnel Management in the councils to hold
forth, so that those monies would be used to run
the councils and pay salaries,’’ he said.
The governor said even if the price of oil goes to
zero per cent, Edo workers would get their salary
alerts before the end of every month.
He assured that he would not use his office to put
hardship on any of his workers.
Earlier, the State Chairman of the Trade Union
Congress (TUC), Mr Orhue Marshall, appealed to
government to enlist workers in the state in the
National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
According to him, this would enable them to have
access to quick and cheap medical facilities, like
their colleagues in the Federal Public Service.
Vanguard
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