Governors under the aegis of Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), who met on Wednesday night in Abuja, have said however they were not against the upward audit of the national the lowest pay permitted by law, they came up short on the capacity to pay the proposed N24,000.
Administrator of NGF and Governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, who informed columnists on the result of the gathering, unveiled that the governors additionally met with the President of the Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba, who advised them on what number of states followed the assertion marked to clear pay overdue debts.
As indicated by him, the issue was not simply on concurred figure to be paid by the governors, yet the "capacity or assets to deal with that concurred the lowest pay permitted by law."
Solicited whether the issue from the lowest pay permitted by law was a piece of the plan of the gathering, Yari stated:
"We didn't talk about the lowest pay permitted by law since that is in the hands of the Federal Government since it is on the Exclusive List.
In any case, similar to we stated, we can do the lowest pay permitted by law on any sum we require yet the issue is the capacity to pay the lowest pay permitted by law concurred.
"In the last gathering which the clergyman of Labor went to with the transaction advisory group and furthermore the board of trustees that we additionally set up,
we clarified that we are not against the upward audit of compensation, we are couple with the NLC to get the lowest pay permitted by law explored yet the issue we are having is the ability to pay what is concurred.
"As at today, a large portion of the states are attempting to pay the N18,000 the lowest pay permitted by law. A few states are paying between 35 to 50 percent of the lowest pay permitted by law and a few states are owing compensation.
"On the off chance that we say we will complete an upward audit of the lowest pay permitted by law, it isn't about just looking into it however how we will get the assets to provide food for it.
"The NLC had requested N30,000 as the lowest pay permitted by law, the governors proposed N20,000, while the Federal Government said it could bear the cost of N24,000."
On the Paris Club discount which the Federal Government dispensed to states depending on the prerequisite that they utilize bigger level of the cash to pay specialists'
compensations, Yari said while a few states had recorded some advancement in accordance with the condition they marked with the Federal Government, others were all the while owing back payments.
"We welcomed the national leader of NLC to give us points of interest on how a few states performed. Some different states that are not a la mode, where are they?
"So they have marked Memorandum of Understanding with the NLC at the national level and their agent in states on when they will conquer the issue of compensation back payments.
"That has been done and it has been taken to the Central Bank (of Nigeria) representative to guarantee that those states were likewise paid."
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