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President of TUC, Quadri Olaleye
Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has advised government to focus on reducing salaries of political office holders not workers, in its move to bring down the cost of governance.
In a statement, yesterday, TUC said it had become imperative for government to reduce the cost of governance but it must be done the right way.
President and Secretary General of TUC, Quadri Olaleye and Musa-Lawal Ozigi, said time had come for the take home of political office holders to be significantly reduced, claiming that the country was paying them for nothing.
According to the labour union, it is preposterous, wicked and ungodly for the Minister of Finance and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, to come up with the idea of reducing salaries at a time the country is still grappling with the effects of COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with millions of Nigerians rendered jobless and N30, 000 minimum wage which has been rubbished by the high rate of inflation.
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The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to call the Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed to order, over her proposal calling for the reduction of worker’s salaries.
Though the TUC also acknowledged the need to reduce the cost of governance, it, however, added that the government should look in the way of political office holders who are doing nothing but receiving huge salaries.
In a statement signed by the TUC President, Comrade Quadri Olaleye and the Secretary-General, Comrade Musa-Lawal Ozigi, the congress rather said the huge take-home of political office holders should be significantly reduced rather than the paltry N30,000 per month salary of a worker.
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