Gombe commences payment of minimum wage

Under the direction of Deputy Governor Dr Manassah Jatau, the Gombe Minimum compensation Negotiation Committee has set October as the date for state employees to receive the agreed upon compensation. Jatau told reporters at a Thursday night briefing that the committee had recently received the consequential adjustment table from the federal government. 

Jatau further stated that the technical subcommittee, under the direction of Finance Commissioner Gambo Magaji, has seventy-two hours to ascertain the sum owed to state employees.

He said, “Having received that document, we have decided to meet and assess precisely what we can do. From the membership you see from the government side and labour, it is evident that there is total concern. We have considered what is available and what is not, and I can assure you that the government and the governor are determined to pay the N70,000 minimum wage this month.

“We have discussed this, but at any point, you know we have those who are called technical people; they have been given 72 hours to meet and come back with the final details to look at where we may not have considered everything, as most of us are politicians.

“I can assure you that within 72 hours, they will return with their report, and possibly by Monday, I will confirm what I have said.”

Speaking as well, Yusuf Aish-Bello, the state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, declared that the union would not settle for anything less than the minimum salary that had been agreed upon.

Aish-Bello said, “The assurance I give to you is that it is going to be N70,000, nothing less. I want to inform the general civil servants and residents that we have examined tables from the national level, and I believe that when we reconvene in the technical meeting, we will arrive at what will be paid to the civil servants of Gombe State.”

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