The Edo State Government, has announced an increment in her employee’s salaries, from the approved N30,000 minimum wage, to N40,000, and reduction of work days from five to three, as a strategy to cushion the effect of the petrol subsidy removal, which has caused some challenges on public and civil servants in the state.
According to Governor Godwin Obaseki, on Tuesday, 6th June, 2023, he said that “the government shares the pains of the people and assuring them of commitment in alleviating their suffering, we know the hardship that has been caused by this policy which has radically increased the cost of transportation, eating deep into the wages of workers in the state“.
Governor Obaseki urged the people of the state to remain calm, as the government is striving hard to ensure electricity organisations boost power supply for betterment of homes and businesses to ease the hardship of the fuel price increase.
Story: Ezekiel Kefas