BUHARI MUST CHANGE THIS!
I was bored this week end, for lack of anything to read, I went to peruse through my University papers. It helped to dust off those cobwebs, but I was amazed to be reminded at the sources of power which listed information as one of it. This means if one has vital information it gives one power, strength, or an advantage to make wise decision or even to create a formidable change in respect of that field of information gotten.
Majority of our country men and women do not have information about their country or how it is governed. Most of us do not have access to those activities that influenced, for instance, the bench mark for our minimum wage. Why and how did the Government arrived at the N18,000:00 minimum wage as against the wealth the country produces? Or how come it placed the basic monthly salary of a Senator at N2,484,245.50? According to The Economist, per annum income of a Nigeria's legislator is whopping $2,183,685.00 as against its US counterpart of $174,000.00, really?
Those in support of this kind of astronomical income for legislators in Nigeria defended that Nigeria is a rich country.
Yes, we are a rich country indeed. But why couldn't we appear in the list of the 10 most prosperous African countries? So it isn't about riches, Nigeria is a wasteful country. And a lot of our policies supports corruption and fierce struggle to political positions.
CNN recently echoed similar analysis which says "according to new research from the Legatum Institute, which last week ranked prosperity in 38 African countries around criteria ranging from economics to education to health" Nigeria did not make that prosperity list. So what is happening to our prosperity?
Now that we know what a legislator earns in a month vis a viz the minimum wage of slightly above $100, we must work to effect this change. We are not asking the Government to slash legislators salary but we demand an increase to the minimum wage. Perhaps this will reduce rural-urban migration, labour and skill flight, abolition cut-throat competition to the centre. It will surely de-escalate crime.
Majority of our country men and women do not have information about their country or how it is governed. Most of us do not have access to those activities that influenced, for instance, the bench mark for our minimum wage. Why and how did the Government arrived at the N18,000:00 minimum wage as against the wealth the country produces? Or how come it placed the basic monthly salary of a Senator at N2,484,245.50? According to The Economist, per annum income of a Nigeria's legislator is whopping $2,183,685.00 as against its US counterpart of $174,000.00, really?
Those in support of this kind of astronomical income for legislators in Nigeria defended that Nigeria is a rich country.
Yes, we are a rich country indeed. But why couldn't we appear in the list of the 10 most prosperous African countries? So it isn't about riches, Nigeria is a wasteful country. And a lot of our policies supports corruption and fierce struggle to political positions.
CNN recently echoed similar analysis which says "according to new research from the Legatum Institute, which last week ranked prosperity in 38 African countries around criteria ranging from economics to education to health" Nigeria did not make that prosperity list. So what is happening to our prosperity?
Now that we know what a legislator earns in a month vis a viz the minimum wage of slightly above $100, we must work to effect this change. We are not asking the Government to slash legislators salary but we demand an increase to the minimum wage. Perhaps this will reduce rural-urban migration, labour and skill flight, abolition cut-throat competition to the centre. It will surely de-escalate crime.
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