TUC presses Tinubu to pay N35,000 award having failed to do so since October
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
President Bola Tinubu has been pressed by the Trade Union Congress (TUC) to pay up the N35,000 wage award he promised all federal workers from September as agreed during negotiations on fuel subsidy removal palliative.
Abuja paid the award in September but has since failed to do so.
TUC President Festus Osifo reiterated the need for the payment in Abuja after an emergency meeting of the TUC National Executive Council (NEC).
He said he has it on good authority that workers have only received the payment for September and only a few have been paid for the second month.
Osifo alerted all the 36 Governors and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to “tighten their belt in assuaging the plight of workers” cused by the removal of fuel subsidy to avoid a fresh crisis in the country.
“On the issue of the wage award, it is on record that the payment has been made just once for September, but as it is now, our members in the federal civil service have not been paid the ₦35,000 wage award since October.”
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Govt officials living in affluence while ordinary workers suffer
“We wish to call on the government to fast track all the payments now. We learnt that they’re putting some things in place to ensure the payment, but people are not ready to listen to excuses,” Osifor added, per The PUNCH.
“We demand that they immediately pay this ₦35,000 wage award to the bank accounts of the federal civil servants without excuses.
“We want the government to tighten their belts, governments at all levels – the federal government, the state and local governments – because a situation where they are asking Nigerians to keep tightening their belt and they (government officials) are living in affluence is not acceptable.”
