Nigeria: Minimum Wage, Maximum Wahala - II

opinion

From last week, I embarked on a critique of the current quest by labour leaders for an increase in minimum wage. I considered the fact that only the public sector could envisage such an increase given that they have taxpayers' money and proceeds of natural resources to dip hands into. Also, I considered the fact that a good proportion of the civil service is unproductive and that we have a huge problem with 'ghost workers'; an idea by which top officers collect salaries and emoluments of workers who don't exist. I continue with other reasons this week, and proffer solutions that can work:

5. Civil servants may be able to arm-twist us all - because we taxpayers will have to pay for this anyway - but they should remember that they too are part of the corruption and inefficiency problem. Many people don't go to work but they want higher wages. Others loaf around and close at 3pm. Yet others only go to steal. They are being unfair to the rest of us.

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