Kamarudeen Ogundele, Ado Ekiti
A former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), has urged the Federal Government to grant the N56,000 minimum wage demand by the Nigerian Labour Congress, saying it is not too much considering the depreciation of naira.
He lamented that the nation’s leaders had not shown enough concerns and empathy for the Nigerian workers and the unemployed in the society.
He said, “Unemployment is a scourge more painful than corruption, in fact, it is more painful because unemployment festers corruption.
“I agree with the NLC on its demand for the new minimum wage. No government in this country should pay less than that. The NLC is even being benevolent. Why is government running away from paying that minimum wage? Why is government not creating employment opportunities?”
Olanipekun spoke at the laying of the foundation for a…
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