The Gombe State Governor, Inuwa Yahaya, has disclosed that with the lean allocation to the state, it would be difficult to meet the N70,000 minimum wage.
Recall that the minimum wage was recently assented to by Bola Tinubu following an agreement with joint labour unions.
Speaking on Tuesday during a meeting held with stakeholders on the planned nationwide #Endbadgovernance protest at the banquet hall of Gombe Government House, Yahaya declared, “I cannot pay the N70,000 minimum wage, and I suspect many other states are in the same predicament.”
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He added that even the previous minimum wage of N30,000 was a struggle for many state governments to implement.
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