August 13, (THEWILL) – Civil servants have threatened to shut down states that refuse to pay the N70,000 new national minimum wage.
Speaking in Lagos on Monday, at the 5th Quadrennial Delegates Conference of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), its President, Shehu Muhammed, said activities in the defaulting states would be crippled should they fail to implement the new minimum wage.
“For states not ready to implement the new minimum wage, let me tell you categorically, it is impossible. We are coming for them.
“The most important priority now is to address the issue of the new minimum wage by constituting a committee to address the consequential adjustments towards implementation and the strategies to ensure workers have a living wage in Nigeria.
“The full implementation of the new national minimum wage and its consequential adjustments at both the federal and the 36 states of the federation will be the top priority of Organised Labour”, he said.
