Governor Hyacinth Alia of Benue state has approved a minimum wage of N75,000 for workers in the state.
The Governor gave the approval Monday after a meeting with members of the organised Labour at the State Secretariat in Makurdi.
The Chief Presss Secretary to the Governor, Tersoo Kula in a statement indicated that the Governor promised to pay alongside the new minimum wage the remaining three months of the five months backlog of arrears inherited by his administration.
The statement noted that “the remaining three months of the five-month backlog of arrears promised to the union will be paid as budgeted in the 2024 budget, along with the minimum wage, effective November 2024.
“So we are implementing the new national minimum wage of N75,000. We decided to set the wage at N75,000, fully aware of the other concerns raised by organized labor during the negotiations.
“These concerns included a minimum wage of N30,000, wage awards, transportation allowances, tax relief, and work-off days, among others.
“Recall that the President had approved the sum of N70,000, which we have decided to exceed, considering the concerns raised by organized labor regarding our ability to pay.”
The Governor emphasized that his government was committed to serving the common man, stressing that he would do everything legitimately possible to ensure that the workers of Benue state were properly taken care of.
He explained that his motivation to ensure that the arrears were paid was to alleviate the effects of hardship on the state workers.
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