Ensure Regular Review Of Workers Salaries, FPN Tells FG

The Freedom Party of Nigeria (FPN), has called on the Federal Government to review workers salaries regularly, to make them comfortable.

Chief Frank Ohwofa, National Chairman of the party, made the call in Abuja yesterday in an interview with our correspondent.

Ohwofa said the duties assigned to most Nigerian workers were more tasking than those of  political office holders “who take home millions as their remunerations”.

He stressed the need for regular review of the wages towards achieving better productivity, adding that the nation’s wealth should not be enjoyed by the political class alone.

Ohwofa said with better wages, workers would no longer indulge in corrupt practices and unnecessary administrative bottlenecks.

According to him, industrial disputes would be minimised when better wages were paid.

It is a common fact that most of the jobs by the civil servants are more tasking and tedious than those of political office holders.

I want the National Assembly to regularly review salaries of workers to enable them put in their best,’’ Ohwofa added.

He said FPN planned to make workers happy if it assumed powers, and urged Nigerians to vote for the party, to improve their welfare.

The National Chairman gave the assurance that governors contesting on the platform of the FPN in the April elections, would implement its agenda, especially on workers’ issues.

He also called on government to check market forces, to control prices of commodities, adding that without such measures, the new national minimum wage would not help civil servants.

Ahwofa commended NASS for passing the wage bill, saying Nigerian workers deserved more than N18, 000.