Fuel price erodes N70,000 minimum wage, ASCSN laments

Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has said it would engage federal and state governments to come up with programmes and policies that will cushion hardship on workers, stating that the fuel hike has already eroded their yet-to-be implemented N70,000 new minimum wage.

ASCSN National President, Shehu Muhammed, said in Lagos that the engagement with governments on palliatives for civil servants across the country was pertinent to improving the welfare package for enhanced productivity.

Noting that civil servants’ welfare was paramount in the country, he said it was not the time to start rejoicing over the N70,000 minimum wage, but to ensure that palliatives to cushion the effects of the increase were being brought forward so that Nigerian workers would have some support and have a relief of the fuel hike.

Muhammed said: “We are going to formulate policies that will assist the civil servants in terms of housing and transportation because these are the key problems that civil servants in Nigeria today are trying to cope with.

The exorbitant rate at which the landlords are charging their tenants and the rate of transportation vis-à-vis the fuel increase now is something that you can’t even bring the N70,000 on the table to take care of yourself talkless of members of families that you have and other dependents. It will go a long way in improving their capacities,” he said.