The Nigeria Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige has revealed that his monthly salary after tax deduction is ₦942,000.
Ngige made this disclosure on Monday during an interview tagged ‘Politics Today’ on Channels television which was monitored by Africa Today News, New York.
Speaking on the administration’s commitment to workers’ welfare in the last eight years, he said even political officeholders were not left out in the excruciating economic situation in the country.
When asked about paying workers’ salaries from June and beyond, the minister said, ‘I’m not the Central Bank governor, neither am I the finance minister. These two manage the Nigerian economy, the fiscal and micro. Even if it means printing money, I cannot print, and I don’t know how it’s done.
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‘My salary is N942,000 a month. That’s my salary with my Personal Assistant, that is the gross total after taxation. Every minister you see, that’s what it is. Special Adviser too, is around that amount at the federal level.’
In another report, the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and their Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, counterparts, have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to focus his efforts on mitigating last-minute looting of the nation’s treasury as his administration winds down.
This was off the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Workers’ Day promise of tackling issues facing the workforce with an emphasis on a reviewed minimum wage structure
In a joint address delivered at the National Workers’ Day celebration held at Eagle Square, Abuja, the organised Labour unions advised the President to caution members of his administration from plunging the country into ruin with thieving.
‘The outgoing President must take steps to ensure that those in his administration planning last-minute heists on the nation’s treasury are stopped,’ they said.
Speaking on the nation’s debt profile they lamented the state of continuous borrowing that has left the economy non-progressive.