It was no longer a story that removal of fuel has caused a lot of hardship to one and all country wide.
That is why the current administration in Kano out of its foresight formed a committee aimed at finding ways on how best such challenges will be lessen among the workforce and their former colleagues the pensioners.
Thus based on the committee’s submission after much deliberations with the workforce reprensatatves , they attained at a resolution that workers,no matter their positions, would be given twenty thousand Naira for a period of six months right from October 2023 while retirees will go home with fifteen thousand Naira without arrears.
While shedding light on the development, in an interface with PERISCOPE ONLINE the state Secretary of Tuc Comrade Abdu Usman Yalo explained that as salaries have since been paid the payment will be practical as soon as possible as according to him almost every thing has been finalized
Comrade Abdu Usman Yalo who extolled how both sides resolved the issue amicably within a short period of time , expressed optimism that the pledge made by the Government will be redeemed in view of the calibre of people present at the sitting.
He seized the opportunity to call on fellow workers to reciprocate the gesture through observing their spelt out duties to the best of their ability.
The Unionist called on the workers to be calmed as in his words there is no case for alarm as by April there will be a new minimum wage across the country.
Comrade Usman Abdu Yalo who is equally the Chairman of State wing of Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools stressed the need for Government to triple effort in the payment of gratuity and dead benefits to ex colleagues and their families in view of the stiffing difficulties they have been facing across all angles which he described as unbearable.
He however urged the Government on the need to have a living wage so that workers after retirement will overcome obstacles that may come their way up to end of their lives.
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Masha Allah good news