Minimum wages to value $4.00 per day
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), has vowed to challenge the ongoing attempt by federal lawmakers to gate crash into the National Executive Committees of various political parties.The party described the effort of the lawmakers as a new law in the legislators' continuous efforts to make laws in their interest rather than in the nation’s interest.
ACN, in a statement issued in Lagos, on Sun-day, by its National Publi-city Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said it would go to court to challenge the move by the lawmakers, just as it called on other political parties to also mount a legal challenge against the obnoxious, self-serving, greedy and democracy-killing proposed insertion into the Electoral Act 2010.
The party urged the organised labour, civil society organisations and political parties to march to the National Assembly to ensure such anti-democractic law was not passed.It described the current National Assembly as the most expensive and anti-people ever in Nigeria 's history, saying it was time to stop them from ruining the democracy that mil-lions of Nigerians fought to entrench.
“Our legislators are the highest paid in the world, with those of Kenya - a distant second. Yet, they never consulted us before padding their pay to such high levels.
“The widespread story is that each of them earns a million naira per day, except on weekends and public holidays! This is not far from the truth, since each one smiles home with N45 million per quarter in a country where most citizens live on less than US$1 a day, and the minimum wage being fought for comes to US$4 per day!”
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