We are ready to pay N70,000 new minimum wage – Nasarawa Gov, Abdullahi Sule

Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State has announced his readiness to implement a minimum wage of N70,000 for civil servants in the state.

Comrade Peter Ahemba, the Senior Special Assistant to the governor on public affairs, revealed this during a media chat with the Correspondents’ Chapel.

Ahemba confirmed that Governor Sule has already approved the new wage, which is expected to take effect soon.

“Governor Abdullahi Sule is more than ready to pay the ₦70,000 minimum wage passed into law and accented to by the president Bola Ahmed Tinubu. His excellency Engineer Sule is committed to Workers welfare and the entire development of the state”, Ahemba said.

Ahemba stated that the state government applaud the youths in the state for shunning the ongoing protest in some parts of the country, but rather resolved to dialogue.

“The government of Abdullahi Sule is aware of the current hardship everyone is going through and he is taking steps to address the current hardship through profitable youths engagement and entrepreneurship training as parts of his agenda of industrialisation.

Governor Sule urged the youths to remained calm as his administration is working hard to creates employment for the youths through his industrialisation policy that is fast yeilding result.

On alleged fertiliser diversion by government officials, governor Sule vowed to deal decisively with any government appointee found guilty.

“The federal government recently sent trucks of fertiliser to be distributed to farmers free of charge across the state, and Nasarawa has received and distributed to farmers across the 13 local governments.

“However, there are alligations of diversion of the fertilisers in three local governments by some government officials. The governor has directed the security agents in the state to carry out a full scale investigation to fish out the culprits.

“Engr. Sule has vowed that no appointee under him will be spare if found guilty of the diversion. Governor Sule has zero tolerance for sharp practices especially if his appointees are involved.