The senator representing Edo North senatorial district, Adams Oshiomhole, on Sunday, described the N30,000 monthly minimum wage as a “criminal wage”, saying his cleaner gets paid no less than N60,000.
What we call minimum wage is a criminal wage,” Oshiomhole said during a live appearance on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics.
“If you exchange N30,000 at N800 or N700 to the dollar, what does that translate to? So, the value of that minimum wage when it was N125 – when it was first introduced under, I think, (Shehu) Shagari’s government – is about two times or three times the value many years later, even in the public service.”
According to him, the average responsible private-sector employer is a better employer than the Federal Government or state government.
