These may not be the best of times for civil servants in Zamfara, Taraba and some other states as they have yet to pay the minimum wage over three years after it was signed into law.
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on April 18, 2019 signed the new minimum wage of N30,000 into law, and states and federal governments were expected to comply with the new constitutional provision. The minimum wage was N18,000 before the new law. While some states complied, some others have yet to implement it, subjecting their workers to hardship.
The inflation rate in the country has mostly been on a steady rise in the last couple of years and it spiked to 20.52 per cent in August, being the highest rate in the last 17 years. This and the consequential rise in the cost of food items and all products in the market and the poor state of the economy had inflicted enormous hardship on many Nigerians and plunged some into poverty.
Meanwhile, in Taraba State, civil servants on Thursday decried the non-implementation of the N30,000 minimum wage by the state government. Some civil servants who spoke to one of our correspondents in Jalingo, the state capital, on condition of anonymity said their salaries could no longer take care of their bills due to the state of the economy.
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