Akwa Ibom State civil servants have described as “disturbing” the perceived silence of
Governor Umo Eno over the implementation of the new minimum wage of N70,000 in
the state and vowed to embark on industrial action if the state government remained
silent and refused to do the needful.
One of the workers at the Idongesit Nkanga Secretariat, who pleaded anonymity, said,
they were getting more worried as the governor seemed not to be in a hurry to make
any pronouncement on the matter.
This is coming after Governor Eno had promised to pay whatever the federal
government arrived at, while, the State Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress Comrade
Sunny James while reacting to the workers threat for strike warned them to desist from
such action as the state government has not received the template for implementation
of the new minimum wage from the National Salary and Wages Commission.
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