New Minimum Wage: Slash Your Salaries To Pay Workers N30,000 – Rev. Gbadero

Reverend Isaac Gbadero, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Sabongari, Zaria,
Kaduna State, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to slash the
salaries of political office holders to comfortably accommodate the
N30,000 minimum wage demanded by organised labour.

According to
the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, he made the call in a message to the
Christian faithful in commemoration of the 2018 Christmas, shortly after
Christmas Church Service in Zaria.

Gbadero said the appeal
became extremely critical in view of the importance of workers not only
to national growth and development but also to sustainable democracy.

The
clergyman expressed serious concern over the meagre amount being given
to Nigerian civil servants as monthly salary, advising that government
must holistically give the issue a firsthand treatment.

He said,
“See how much they are paying themselves in the House of Representatives
and the Senate (National Assembly) and see the small change they are
giving as basic salary.

“Look at the current argument now, some
governors are saying it is hard to pay the proposed minimum wage. What
is wrong in them slashing their own salary? Is it wrong for the
president to reduce his own money? Is it wrong for the senators and Reps
to reduce their own salary?

“Let them slash their salaries and
give us what belongs to us, have they come to lead people who are
suffering? If not, why can’t they sacrifice for the sake of the nation?

“If
they desire good things for themselves they should also desire good
things for Nigerians too. People should know, those who are not leading
us well, we can change them at the polling booth, therefore, there is no
need to make trouble.

“Let’s come together, there is no need to
fight ourselves, whether you are a Muslim, Christian, Pagan, Hausa,
Igbo, Yoruba, Kanuri, Ibibio or Kalabari, we go to the same market.

“But
these people don’t come to market, they use our tax money to buy all
what they want, why can’t we get wiser. Let them stop using us to kill
ourselves, let’s come together and elect credible people who care for
us.”