By Suleiman Mustapha
Gombe State Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has said his administration is ready to pay the new N70,000 National Minimum Wage to workers in the State.
The was revealed by Gombe state Deputy Governor, Manassah Jatau, Sunday, who is also the Chairman of the state’s Tripartite Committee on Minimum Wage.
He added that his committee is fine tuning the details in that respect while assuring that Governor Inuwa Yahaya is committed to paying the new minimum wage.
According to him: “Government has set the machinery for the implementation of the new national minimum wage in Gombe State. Let me assure you that His Excellency the Governor is fully determined to pay the minimum wage.
“Unlike what you have been hearing in some quarters that the governor said he won’t pay. No, not at all. His Excellency is one of the governors in the forefront of payment of the new minimum wage,” he added.
He said that“ Governor Inuwa has been magnanimous enough to willingly pay a N10,000 palliative in the form of a wage award since September last year to all civil servants in the state to cushion the effect of fuel subsidy removal which, automatically brought the minimum wage to 40,000 naira when other states couldn’t pay the 30,000 minimum wage.”
