Abolaji Ayodeji
The Labour Party has promised Nigerians to implement an N80,000-N100,000 minimum wage if the party win in the 2023 presidential election.
The Labour Party Deputy National Chairman, Ayo Olorunfemi said this while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday.
Mr Olorunfemi added that the party is persuading the payment of hourly wages instead of monthly salary format in the country.
“It depends on the nature of the job that would be given out. For instance, when you take a cursory look at the manual labourer out there, he does not take less than N2,500-N3,000 per day which is still not okay as far as the reward system is concerned. If you divide N3,000 by six hours, you will be talking about N500 per hour,” he said on the show.
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“So, when you benchmark that against what we have now, certainly, you would be talking of something within the range of N500-N1,000 per hour depending on the nature of work, and at the end of the day, someone can effectively say that he can make up to N4,000 in a day. And when you multiply N4,000 in a day by 20 or 25, we are talking about N80,000 or N100,000 in a month.”
“As a matter of fact, you know the amount of oil in the name of oil theft that has been leaving this country,” Mr Olorufemi added. “We know where these things are coming from. They say there is no money but we know these monies have been stashed in the rooms or toilets of a few persons,” He said.
