Former NLC leader describes proposed removal of minimum wage bill from executive list as diversionary

A former vice president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr Issa Aremu, has described the proposed bill to remove the national minimum wage from the exclusive list of the federal government to concurrent list the bill as diversionary.

Aremu at a news conference in Kaduna on Monday said it must be rejected by all people of good conscience.

He stated that the national minimum wage was a settled issue and asked members of the national assembly and governors in various states to suspend the bill for the sake of industrial harmony and development.

The former NLC vice president stressed that the bill, sponsored by a member of the House of Representatives from Sabon Gari federal constituency in Kaduna state, Garba Datti, indicated a scandalous disconnect between some representatives and the people they claim to represent.

He decried that it was unacceptable that some legislators lacked sufficient knowledge of the 1999 constitution after 21 years of the uninterrupted democratic process.