"Minimum wage now N40k": Obaseki slashes work days to 3 per week over subsidy

LEGIT NG 

The Edo state government has expressed sympathy for its citizens due to the removal of fuel subsidy, causing a rise in the cost of goods and services. 

Governor Godwin Obaseki announced that civil and public servants would now work three days a week instead of five to alleviate the increased transportation expenses. 

The government is also implementing measures such as increasing the minimum wage, improving the power supply, and promoting remote work to reduce the burden on the people.

The Edo state government has expressed sympathy towards its citizens regarding the removal of fuel subsidy, resulting in a rise in the cost of goods and services. Governor Godwin Obaseki on Tuesday, June 6, announced that civil and public servants would now operate on a three-day workweek instead of five days, in response to the increased transportation expenses. 

He said in a statement sighted by Legit.ng: “In the wake of fuel subsidy removal by the Federal Government, fuel prices have increased astronomically leading to a rise in prices of goods and services and overall cost of living. 

“The Edo State Government shares the pains of our people and wants to assure everyone that we are standing with them in these very challenging times. “We want to reassure our people that we will do all within our powers as a sub-national government to reduce the pains and ameliorate the sufferings our people are currently facing in the wake of the current realities. 

“As a proactive government, we have since taken the step to increase the minimum wage paid to workers in Edo State from the approved N30,000 to N40,000, the highest in the country today. 

“We want to assure you that we will continue to pay this amount, while we hope to increase it even further if more allocation accrues to our State from the Federal Government in view of the expected savings occasioned by the removal of the fuel subsidy. 

He continued: “We know the hardship that has been caused by this policy which has radically increased the cost of transportation, eating deep into the wages of workers in the State. Therefore, the Edo State Government is hereby reducing the number of work days that civil and public servants will have to commute to their workplaces from five days a week to three days a week…

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