Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo has approved a new minimum wage of N104,000 for civil servants in the state. The minimum wage was increased from N76,000 to N104,000.
Governor Uzodimma made this known during a meeting with various labour union leaders at the Government House in Owerri.
He said Imo citizens had faced numerous challenges since his government took office, including insecurity, the COVID-19 pandemic, economic hardship from reform policies, and disputes over minimum wage and subsidy removal.
“We tried as a government to always put it behind our mind that there is no way any government will do well if it doesn’t have a friendly and cordial relationship with the organised labour”.
Governor Uzodimma said that the state Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) had grown from N400 million to over N3 billion monthly.
The governor recalled that when he assumed office in 2020, the major infrastructure in all sectors had totally collapsed.
He said a lot had been expended to rebuild the collapsed infrastructure especially roads and combating the insecurity challenges.
He stressed that the removal of fuel subsidy had equally raised the cost of living in Nigeria as much as it had its own advantages.
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