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From Aniekan Aniekan, Calabar
The Cross River State Governor, Senator Bassey Otu, has increased the minimum wage in the state to N40,000.
He announced this during his address at the Workers’ Day celebration yesterday at the UJ Esuene Stadium in Calabar.
In announcing the new wage, the governor said he considered its workforce as the driver of lofty projects and programmes for the common good of the people, and would always hold them in high esteem to achieve good results.
The governor said the new wage implementation shall be in line with the realities of the time, rather than sentiments, and that modalities for the immediate implementation were being worked out.
The governor, however, called for a higher productivity by the workers, saying their productivity was barely five percent.
In his speech, the state chairman of the NLC, Gregory Olayi, listed challenges workers face to include non-implementation of promotion and non-payment of gratuities.
Others are lateness in remittances of deductions from workers’ salaries, among others and called on the governor to give priority for these issues.
Also speaking, the state chairman of TUC, Monday Ogbodum, presented the demands of the Congress to the governor.
He called on the governor to review the new policy of making the office of principals in public schools in the state tenured.
