Kaduna — The Chairman, Board of Directors, Kaduna Electric, Alhaji Yusuf Hamisu Abubakar, has called on electricity consumers to avoid…
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He said, “The meeting agreed with the president and concurred that more consultation is the way to go because the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement will have implications for us, which we hope will be positive.”
“In responding to the request for a memorandum, we then use current economic indices to make a fresh demand. So, what we place and what we demand is an outcome of analysis we carried out.”
The committee is determined to complete its assignment before the end of this year. I am confident that the outcome of the assignment would address the issue of social imbalance, inequality and the wide gap of poverty in the country.”
Organised labour in the country has lamented that the current minimum wage of N18,000 per month was unsustainable, calling for a new national minimum wage of N56,000 monthly.
“There is a deep-seated conflict of interest in the downstream sector; regulators are operators, regulators are importers, importers are products hoarders, regulators are also saboteurs, definitely we have a sector capture in our hands, Nigeria and Nigerians need liberation,” he remarked.
The president also said the current minimum wage being used in the country has already expired.
He said, “We hope that after the inauguration, the committee can commence work immediately so that we can cover some mileage and also cover the times that have been lost. This is something that workers have long anticipated and our expectation is that we want a speedy process and that the fact that the issues are very obvious.”
He said, “When we came to power in 2015, there was a minimum wage, and by May 2016, we now had a deregulation in the petroleum industry and prices of petroleum products went up and we started discussions with organised labour.
“Nigerian workers will be happy with the outcome of this report and this is what they will canvass as their position on restructuring,” Wabba stated.