Ambali Olatunji, the national president of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees, proposed on Monday that workers’ salaries be increased by 300% to mitigate the effects of the loss of fuel subsidies.
Olatunji also advocated for the creation of a single institution to fix the wages of both workers and political office holders in order to achieve equity because everyone in the nation shops at the same markets.
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The labour leader asked for the Orosanye Report to be implemented right away in order to lower the excessively high cost of governance while speaking at the opening of NULGE Hotels and Suites in Ado Ekiti, the capital of Ekiti State.
He said, “The government should review the Orosanye Report and restructure the MDAs so that at the end of the day, we cut down the cost of governance. Not only that, the retinue of aides should be cut down, and the salaries and wages of the political office-holders should be reviewed downward.
“We demand that the salary of workers be increased by 300 per cent to cushion the effect of the pain we are going through.
“That is the way to go. It is time to make available palliatives to cushion the effect of fuel subsidy removal.”
The labour leader said it was shocking that “after one month of subsidy removal, nothing has been done by the Federal Government.”
“We are confident that President Bola Tinubu knows what he is doing, but the delay can be dangerous. It is time for him to sit down and address that,” the NULGE leader said.
