“My Cleaner Earns N60k”: Oshiomhole Slams FG’s N30k Minimum Wage
- Senator Adams Oshiomhole has made a case for civil servants stating that the N30,000 minimum wage does not meet the reality of this current economy
- During an interview on live television, Oshiomhole described the N30,000 minimum wage as a "criminal wage"
- He disclosed that his cleaner earns double the national minimum wage despite having four children she caters for daily
FCT, Abuja - The former governor of Edo State, Senator Adams Oshiomhole, has slammed the N30,000 minimum wage pegged by the federal government, noting that his cleaner earns N60,000 monthly.
The lawmaker representing Edo North senatorial district made this known on Sunday, July 23, during an interview on Channels TV's late-night program "Sunday Politics" anchored by Seun Okinbaloye.
Source: UGC
Oshiomhole makes case for civil servants
While speaking on the N30,000 minimum wage, Senator Oshiomhole described it as a "criminal wage."
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He said:
“If you exchange N30,000 at N800 or N700 to the dollar, what does that translate to? So, the value of that minimum wage when it was N125 – when it was first introduced under, I think, (Shehu) Shagari’s government – is about two times or three times the value many years later, even in the public service.”
“I can tell you what I have decided to pay my cleaner. My cleaner is just a primary school – I’m not sure she has even a school leaving certificate. But she’s knowledgeable enough to clean the hous.”
“I found myself unable to pay her less than N60,000 – in fact, N60,000. It’s about my conscience. I’m trying to imagine what she has to pay for a house. She told me she has four children.
“I’m trying to imagine how she has to look after those children and I cannot question why she should have four children.”
Oshiomhole argued that, given his background and knowledge of the cost of living, he could pay her any less “in a clean conscience”.
The 71-year-old lawmaker explained that “if I have chosen to employ a cleaner and chosen not to clean the house by myself, that is the least I thought I could pay” her.
According to him, the pay will not necessarily “deliver a comfortable living standard, but what you call irreducible minimum for her to survive”.
He said:
“If I do that to my cleaner, I have to do a little more to my driver because he requires some training and, sometimes, even retraining, and my security is in his hands.”
“My BP Would Have Risen If I Lost 2023 Election”, Prominent Former Governor Opens Up
In another development, Adams Oshiomhole, the senator representing Edo north, has said his blood pressure (BP) would have shot up if he was not elected into the 10th national assembly.
Senator Oshiomhole said his BP would have risen to 360 millimetres of mercury (mm Hg) had he failed in the 2023 election.
The former Edo state governor thanked his friends and well-wishers for supporting him, promising not to let them down in the red chamber.
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