Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole yesterday said his government is committed to the payment of the N18, 000 minimum wage in the state, saying it remains sacrosanct to his administration.
He said any day he reneges to live up to that promise, it was time
for him to resign from office as governor.Oshiomhole spoke during the commissioning of a 500-capacity lecture theatre, a Moot-Court building abandoned since 1991 and six other projects funded by the government at the state-owned Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma.
He said: “In Edo State, we will not only pay the minimum wage, we will pay all wages because I believe that the day I cannot pay salaries, it is time to resign.
“My task is cut out clearly from the beginning and we have to find the courage to take from those who have and give to those who don’t have. We will look at those who have and collect taxes from them so that we can provide for those who do not have, including students.”
The projects are workshop building for the Building Department and Studio for Fine and Applied Arts; a Moot Court building in the Faculty of Law abandoned since 1991; furnishing of the Moot Court in the Faculty of Law; 500-capacity lecture theatre at the Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences.
Others are two-in-one laboratory block for the Department of Medical Laboratory Science; furnishing of the two-in-one laboratory block for the Department of Medical Laboratory Science; library building in the Faculty of Basic Medical Science and Department Building for the Department of Agricultural Economics, Emaudo annex.
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