By Osaro Matthew
Timi Frank has suggested a replication of the 300 percent upward review of judges’ salaries for the current minimum wage.
Frank, in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja, accused the President Bola Tinubu-led administration of double standards in the fixing of salaries, saying what is good for judicial office holders is good for Nigerian workers.
On Wednesday, 5 June 2024, the Senate passed a bill seeking an upward review of salaries, allowances, and other fringe benefits of judicial officers in the country.
If the bill, earlier passed by the House of Representatives, is assented to by the President, the Chief Justice of Nigeria will get an annual salary of N64m. The President of the Court of Appeal will be entitled to N62.4m, while Justices of the Supreme Court will earn N61.4m each.
Frank said, “If the bill to increase the salary of judges by 300 percent could be hurriedly passed in the two chambers of the National Assembly, why can’t the same be done for workers?”
“How can you increase the salary of an arm of government that is already earning a humongous salary by 300 percent and add peanuts to the paltry N30,000 that workers have been compelled to live with in this country as a minimum wage for the last five years?” he added.
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Frank further urged the organised labour to be resolute in their demands, stating that nothing less than N250,000 should be accepted as a minimum wage by the Federal Government.
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