Plateau NUT Embarks On Peaceful Protest Demanding For New Minimum Wage Not Half Salary

Yakubu Busari

At least no fewer than close to a million of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, Plateau Chapter mobilized themselves to embark on a peaceful protest by barricading major streets over 9 years payment of half salary of N18,000.00 reduction of old payment rate and abandoning the N30,000.00.

 

The protesters trek from different locations to protest the non-implementation of the old payment rate talk less implementing the new minimum wage agitation they all have been yearning for.

 

The spokesman of the protesters at Secretariat round were women’s, men teachers all dressed in Black attires holding placards of difference inscriptions, calling on Governor Simon Lalong implement to it.

Teachers in Jos South LGA, Plateau state are right now staging a peaceful protest demanding the implementation of 30k minimum wage. Road in and out from Anguldi is blocked.

 

Activities at the 17 Local Government Areas of Plateau State were on Wednesday paralyzed following protests by the Council workers.

 

In Jos South Local Government Area, the aggrieved workers blocked the Jos-Abuja high-way causing heavy gridlock around Bukuru metropolis.

 

In Quaan Pan LGA, the workers carried placards, chanting anti-government songs.

 

The Chairman of the Plateau State Joint Public Service Negotiating Council, James Diwa, told newsmen in Jos on Wednesday that the workers were not happy because the Governor has not implemented the N30, 000 minimum wage for LG workers.

 

The chairman said, “The problem has to do with the implementation of the new minimum wage in the state.

“When the government started to pay the state workers with the new minimum wage, we advised them to also extend the same to the Council workers but it is clear that our advice was not taken.”

 

One of the workers said they would not stop the protests until the government heeds to their demands.