THE NIGERIA Labour Congress (NLC) has called for “Market Hearing” on prices of food, to enable the minimum wage committee arrive at a reasonable national minimum wage.
The President of NLC, Comrade Joe Ajaero, stated this at the North-East Zonal Public Hearing on National Minimum Wage in Yola, Adamawa State capital, on Thursday.
Comrade Ajaero said the market hearing should also be conducted in all zones, adding that without the market hearing, the aim of the public hearing on minimum wage will be defeated.
“We need to go to the markets and ask how much is a bag of rice, Garri and other food items; if we balance the two, I think we will get somewhere,” he said, adding that a lot of people were facing difficulties.
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He said a worker spends at least N1,000 on transport to go to work and that there was the need for government to do something.
“We are here to collate raw data, so that we can process, get something better and meaningful that will be acceptable to everyone,” he said.
Gov. Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa, described the town hall meeting as timely going by the economic situation in the country.
Fintiri, represented by his Deputy, Prof. Kaletapwa Farauta, said “as government, the right thing to do is what we are doing, to get to our people and bring them help and succour”. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that stakeholders were drawn from Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba, and Yobe States for the public hearing. (NAN)
