By Haruna Usman- Birnin Kebbi
Kebbi state branch of Inter-party Advisory Council, IPAC, has commended Governor Nasir Idris for implementing the N70,000 minimum wage for Kebbi workers.
The state chairman, Alhaji Ibrahim Muhammed, in a statement in Birnin Kebbi described the swift implementation as timely given the prevailing economic situation in the country caused by the removal of fuel subsidy.
According to him, the implementation didn’t come as a surprise to the teaming civil servants in the state because of the governor’s track-records in unionism and his stance for the rights of workers as former labour leader.
The statement added that, his implementation of the new wage was a promise kept and a demonstration of his resolve to evenly share the state resources to all the citizens in the state.
“We are particularly fascinated by directing immediate implementation from state through to local governments and local government education authorities which was never done in the history of minimum wage implementations, hence our reason to commend him”, IPAC said.
IPAC maintained that as a body being looked at, will continue to commend good efforts from anywhere and as well constructively criticise what it deemed a deviation from what the populace expects.
Ibrahim urged the governor to maintain the tempo of even distribution of dividends of democracy at all levels and to as well ensure effective service delivery at local governments level in order to bring governance to the grassroots.
