Senior civil servants demand a minimum wage of N46, 000

The Association of Senior Civil Servants
demanded a minimum wage of N46,000 for
workers.
The union’s Secretary-General, Mr. Bashir Lawal,
in Lagos State, on Wednesday, said that the
existing N18,000 minimum wage was too little
to meet the socio-economic demands of workers.
According to him, they arrived at a minimum
wage of N46,000 per month after the union met
with the National Public Service Joint Negotiating
Council.
He said,
“In the past one year, we presented a
proposal for salary review to the Federal
Government but the government said that the
price of crude had fallen. “We argued that if
the price of crude is 30 dollars per barrel and
the resources of the country are well
managed, money will be enough to pay
workers decent salaries.
“From the memo we submitted to the
NPSJNC, we computed what it will take for
an average worker to survive and we arrive
at N66,000. “So, we took 75 per cent of that
and we arrived at N46,000 minimum wage.
Lawal said that the new minimum wage demand
will not cause crisis in the economic sector, he
said:
“If the government believes that the amount
will create crisis, we will tell them what to do
to ensure that everybody will be carried
along.”