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Sokoto Workers Will Get 30.000 Minimum Wage January – Tambuwal

At the end of January 2020, every worker in Sokoto State would start collecting the N30,000 new minimum wage, Gov. Aminu Tambuwal has said.

He also ordered the immediate verification of personnel to possibly weed out ghost workers on the payroll.

The governor gave the directives when he received the report of the committee constituted by the state government on the implementation of the new minimum wage and consequential adjustments.

”Verification of unscheduled staff and the sharp practise of the sale of offer letters of employment to unwary citizens and a situation where children are on the payroll of the government will not be condoned.

”Prior to the negotiation that ushered the new wage regime, the state government had discovered a disparity in the salary data between the state civil service commission, the ministry of finance and the office of the head of the service.

“This made me look into the situation and we decided to harmonise all the data, leading up to the taking of steps to introduce the issuance of payslips to workers, which is the first time in the history of the state,” Tambuwal said.

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The governor promised to pay the workers owed backlogs of salaries as a result of the meticulous process of the fiscal discipline measures embarked upon by the government.

According to him, the wage bill in the state will now have an increase of N340 million against N324 million based on the committee’s findings as an addition to the existing amount being paid to workers.

He commended the labour unions and government officials on the committee for their collective efforts, maturity, patience, and patriotism.

In his remark, the Committee Chairman, Alhaji Muhammad Namadina, summarised the suggestions of the committee to the state government in order to achieve success.

Namadina said salary and skills assessment of workers, decentralization of salary payments as well as the establishment of a revenue generation system by the state government had been enumerated.

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