National Assembly workers protest, demand payment of minimum wage

The National Assembly workers, operating under the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN), on Monday, staged a protest over the non-implementation of minimum wage.

The workers converged on the lobby of the White House of the National Assembly with placards condemning the action of the Chairman of the National Assembly Service Commission (NASC) for breaching the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed in 2021.

In its January 6, 2022 resolutions to stage the protest, which they addressed to the Clerk of the National Assembly, the association raised six fundamental breaches by the NASS management that triggered the protest.

The resolution, which was signed by the association’s Chairman, Comrade Sunday Sabiyi, and the Vice-Chairman, Comrade M.A. Liman, accused the NASC and NASS of deliberate contempt of their MoU which was agreed on April 14, 2021 stating that “there would be full implementation of the new National Minimum Wage Act, 2019, and the Revised Condition of Service.”

Part of the resolutions read: “Following the Management’s breach of the Memorandum of Understanding entered with PASAN on the 13th April 2021, on the full implementation of the new National Minimum Wage Act, 2019, and the Revised Condition of Service, Congress hereby observes put the management on protest notice.”

It was not possible to speak with the Clerk or his media adviser.

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