The Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage has urged the organised labour to have a rethink on the amount it is demanding as minimum wage.
The chairman of the committee, Alhaji Goni Aji, made the call in Abigail on Sunday, saying the labour should reconsider its stance as the Federal Government had so far provided N35,000 wage award for all treasury-paid federal workers, N100 billion for the procurement of gas fuelled busses and conversion to gas kits.
Aji said the FG has also offered N125 billion conditional grant, financial inclusion to small and medium scale enterprises and the N25,000 each to be shared to 15 million households for three months, according to him.
He also cited the N185 billion palliatives loans to states to cushion the effects of fuel subsidy removal and the N200 billion to support the cultivation of hectares of land to boost food production.
According to him, there was another N75 billion to strengthen the manufacturing sector and N1 trillion for student loans for higher education.
He explained that the release of 42,000 metric tonnes of grains from strategic reserves and the purchase and onward distribution of 60,000 metric tonnes of rice to the millers association.
Goni stated that the recent salary increase of 25 per cent and 35 per cent on all consolidated salary structures for federal workers and the 90 per cent subsidy on health costs for federal civil servants registered on health insurance programme.
All these, he said should be considered by the labour unions and accept the N62,000 being offered by the Federal Government.
