VIDEO: FG Can’t Promise Workers Impossible Wage

Prof Ali Pate's comment comes hours after the Federal Government stepped down a minimum wage review memo to allow for more consultations.

The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof Muhammad Ali Pate, says the Federal Government is committed to improving the welfare and wages of doctors, nurses and other health workers in the country.

The minister, however, said the current administration cannot promise an “impossible” wage that it can’t afford.show on Wednesday, appreciated health workers who go abroad for training and return home to offer their professional services to the country.The minister said, “We appreciate them. There are few who chose to go abroad for training. We’ve approved for some of them to go to other places to be trained. We expect that when they train, they will come back home.

“In the context of the wage review that is ongoing in the country, of course with the Salary Incomes and Wages Commission, we have made submissions to have some adjustment of the remuneration of the health workforce. “At the end of the day, it’s what the economy can afford. At the end of the day, you cannot give what you don’t have and so we have to be very deliberate not to promise things that are impossible to fulfill.”a minimum wage review memo to allow for more consultations.

In his Democracy Day speech on June 12, 2024, President Bola Tinubu assured the Organised Labour that an

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