Alhaji Mallami Yandoto, Chairman, Zamfara State Local Government Service Commission, has revealed that the State government would pay the sum of thirty thousand Naira (30,000) minimum wages to council workers in the state. Yandoto made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Gusau on Tuesday.
He disclosed that he was not satisfied with the poor working conditions, which the local government employees were subjected to; being on a salary below the former N18, 000 minimum wages.
“I cannot imagine an officer on grade level 16 not earning up to N30,000 as monthly salary; how can efficiency be achieved with such poor wages”.
He said the full implementation of the new minimum wage to local government employees would enable them to be alive to their responsibilities.
According to him, they will also value the virtues of punctuality and commitment to work among other things.
Yandoto warned that the commission would no longer fold its arms to allow political office holders victimize civil servants for reasons contrary to the rule of law.
He stressed that the commission was determined to sponsor local government staff to further their studies in any relevant institution of their choice, even outside the country.
