Anambra State Governor, Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo has approved the immediate payment of the new minimum wage of N70,000 for workers in the state.
The governor disclosed that the least paid worker in Anambra State will go home with nothing less than N70,000.
He added that it could be more; ranging between N78,000 to N84,000, depending on the outcome of the harmonizing of template by the government team.
The Governor who revealed this after a meeting between various labour leaders in the state and the state government held at the Governor’s Lodge, Amawbia, late on Friday, insisted that it is with immediate effect.
Prof. Soludo also approved a monthly cash award of N10,000 to all pensioners in the state, until a time the pension salary shall be reviewed.
He said, “This interim cash award was necessitated on my goodwill and empathy on the situation of the pensioners who nobody remembers in all the noise about new minimum wage.
“We urged workers to think positively about contributory pension scheme to save themselves of pension agonies. The earlier the state workers return to Contributory Pension scheme, the better for them,” the governor added.
Reacting, the NLC Chairman, Humphrey Nwafor, said the governor made the negotiations easier by the approvals and thanked him for being “worker friendly”, even as he requested him to always do more for Anambra workers as a father.
The NLC Chairman also announced that the Governor had donated a land for the construction of the NLC state Secretariat known as Workers House which was impossible since 1991 Anambra was created, describing it as unprecedented.
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