ENUGU, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Senior Advocate of Nigeria and human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has insisted that both the Federal Government of Nigeria and the state governments can pay the national minimum wage if looted monies are recovered.Ā
This is even as the organised labour and the Nigerian government, are yet to reach an agreement on the new minimum wage with the latter rejecting the formerās N62,000 offer.Ā
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Recall that the labour reduced its demand to N250,000 from N494,000, while the Federal Government increased its offer from N60,000 to N62,000, during the last meeting held by the Tripartite Committee on the New Minimum Wage in Abuja on Friday.Ā
Speaking on Thursday when he played guest on Channels Television, the senior lawyer asked the Nigerian authorities to muster the political will to pay the minimum wage.
During the show, he said, āThe state governments that are saying they have no money to pay, the money is there.Ā
“All they need, including the Federal Government, is to muster the political will to collect and recover money either looted or withheld from the federation account.”Ā