Anambra State Governor and ex-Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) chief, Chukwuma Soludo; ex-Minister of Works, Babatunde Fashola; the Bishop
Anambra State Governor and ex-Central Bank of Nigeria chief, Chukwuma Soludo ; ex-Minister of Works, Babatunde Fashola ; the Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan-Kukah and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara
The Nigerian Labour Union and the Trade Union Congress have described the N62,000 offered by the government as the new minimum wage as a starvation wage insisting on N250,000. “Sometimes, I wish that we could pay everybody a minimum of N1 million and up to N5 million. Federal revenue will not exceed N17 trillion this year and if you share it with all Nigerians, it comes to N1,160 per person per month. But this money belongs to all Nigerians; that is what you take to provide infrastructure and other amenities,” Soludo said.
“We are now suffering the consequences of delayed adjustments,” he said, emphasising that Tinubu has a “historic duty to mobilise Nigerians to clean up the mess for future generations”. Dogara also urged the federal government to make it a policy to sell crude oil in naira and not in dollars, while proposing that security agencies should sniff around and get politicians and bigwigs hoarding dollars in private vaults.
“The government must demand that all Nigerian exports, including crude oil exports, be paid for in naira, just as we don’t pay for any import into Nigeria from any country in naira. It is not too much to demand that. The government through credible intelligence generated by security agencies ought or should know those individuals in Nigeria who have taken advantage of the system and they have idle USD stashed in their private vaults.
“Take a look at the West African CFA countries. What are they producing and exporting relative to Nigeria? Why does CFA seem immune from the volatility naira has faced? Fashola also noted that the current privatisation of most businesses in the country was heralded by the military through Decree No. 25 of 1988 later amended in 1999, known as the Privatisation and Commercialisation Decree.Before flagging, please keep in mind that Disqus does not moderate communities. Your username will be shown to the moderator, so you should only flag this comment for one of the reasons listed above.
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