Babajide Sanwo-Olu who is the Governor of Lagos State has announced that his administration is working to increase the salaries of workers in the state civil service.
He made this known on Tuesday, October 4, while addressing the workers at the state secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja.
He also said: “I have looked around and I know that as a country, there is pressure. I know that, as a country, there is a high level of inflation, but we are determined to cushion the effects on our workers and residents.
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“At our cabinet meeting, I instructed the head of service office and the ministry of staff training, and pensions to start work on how we are going to increase the entire salary of our public servants in the state.”
He continued: “We are capable of doing this. Lagos leads while others follow in Nigeria. In salary increments, we are taking the lead again.
“We are going to reflect the popular ‘Buga’ slogan in the payment of salaries. We will not wait for the Federal Government’s minimum wage increase.
“We have commenced the process. I can assure that by early next year it will be ready for implementation.
“We don’t want to wait for workers’ unions to hold us to ransom before we do the needful.”
The governor of the state also promised to pay all the outstanding backlog of pensions to workers by the end of October.
Sanwo-Olu said: “I want to reassure you that all the few outstanding backlogs of pensions will be sorted out this week and payment will be done by the end of October.
“We are the highest and best paying in pensions in Nigeria.
“We are clearing the entire backlogs of pensions; it’s a liability we met on ground.”