The Nigeria Labour Congress has written to Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano state to stop deducting workers salary and reimburse them.
The President of the NLC Ayuba Waba made the statement in Abuja in a Press release issued to newsmen.
He told the Governor that new national minimum wage is an act and law signed and all Nigerian laws are binding therefore the governor should not choose which law to obey.
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Ayuba Waba lamented how Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje toyed with the path of his predecessors in office who are workers friendly by implementing the national minimum wage without hesitation.
According to NLC Covid-19 pandemic should not serve as an excuse for deducting workers’ salaries and pauperizing them but the government should also support them with another increment and palliatives as obtained in other countries.
The NLC President cited the example of the PRP Government under the leadership of Late Governor Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi who not only signed May 13, 1981, New National minimum wage of one hundred and twenty-five Naira but went ahead to add two Naira.
NLC directed Governor Ganduje to revert back to the New national minimum wage of 30 thousand Naira and if he refused the labor has no option than to embark on serious industrial action.
