The Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) has requested for 300 per cent increment in the minimum wage for workers across all sectors due to the inflation caused by the removal of fuel subsidy.
This is contained in a communique signed by Mr Isah Gambo, General Secretary of the union, at the end of its regular National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on Thursday in Abuja.
The National President of the Union, Mr Ambali Olatunji, in the communique said that the 300 per cent rise was imperative considering the inflation necessitated by the removal of fuel subsidy on local government staff.
Olatunji urged the government to utilise the 800 million dollars from World Bank to provide mass transit and other interventions especially in the auto-mobile spare parts companies, to cater for the transport need of the masses.
“This will discourage importation, alternate energy provision (CNG), vocational skill acquisition centers for youth and women,” he said.
He said there was need for state of emergency to be declared on local government administration because of the overbearing posture of the state governors on local government which had left it prostrate in the country.
“This will address the infrastructural decay, poverty and state of unemployment across the local governments in the country.
NULGE president also said that government as a matter of urgency should create a special intervention fund to take care of the aforementioned social welfare and infrastructural decay through the Ministry of Special Duty.
He said that the proposed fund should be able to cater for projects and programmes in conjunction with local government.
