Gov. Adams Oshiomhole of Edo on Sunday announced the
increment of the National Minimum Wage from N18,000 to
N25, 000 with immediate effect, for employees in the State
Public Service. He also promised prompt payment of
outstanding arrears of salary to the staff of Local Government
Councils in the state.
Oshiomhole who made the announcement on Sunday at the
grand finale of activities to mark the 2016 Workers Day, said
that plans had also been concluded to pay staff of Egor Local
Government Council who were being owned 13 months arrears
of salary, within the next two weeks.
Explaining why the council was omitted from the bailout to
local government councils in 2015, he gave the assurance that
the Edo Government had been meeting with the Central Bank
of Nigeria and that within the next two weeks, the funds would
be released and staff of the council would be paid in full. He
also explained the reason behind the non -appointment of
Caretaker Committees for the 18 local government councils in
the state, after the end of the tenure of the immediate-past
local government chairmen.
According to him, “rather than appoint caretaker committees
for the councils and pay them because they are politicians, we
directed the Heads of Personnel Management in the councils to
hold forth, so that those monies would be used to run the
councils and pay salaries,’’ he said. The governor said even if
the price of oil goes to zero per cent, Edo workers would get
their salary alerts before the end of every month.
He assured that he would not use his office to put hardship on
any of his workers. Earlier, the State Chairman of the Trade
Union Congress (TUC), Mr Orhue Marshall, appealed to
government to enlist workers in the state in the National
Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). According to him, this would
enable them to have access to quick and cheap medical
facilities, like their colleagues in the Federal Public Service.
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