Implement Wage Law Across Board, Cleric Urges

Director of Communications, Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos Monsignor Gabriel Osu, has urged the Federal Government to honour its agreement with the organised labour “to the fullest’’.

Osu, in an interview with newsmen in Lagos, said that the payment of the N18,000 minimum wage should apply to all workers.

In his reaction to the statement by the government representatives that it was going to pay the new minimum wage to only workers on Levels 01 to 06, Osu said that that was inappropriate.

He said it would be wrong for the government to renege on any agreement it reached and signed into law with labour unions.

He urged the Federal Government to implement the policy across board as that would raise the nation’s image “ especially in the eyes of the international community. “How then will government gain the confidence of the people when it decides not to honour its own side in a bargain it freely entered with workers, “ he queried.

He said: “ I do not think government entered into that agreement on mere promises, knowing full well that it will not keep it.

“It is wrong for the government to wait for strike to take place before it implements its own policy.