The Senate on Thursday suspended its rules by evoking order 79
to give the new Minimum Wage (amendments) Bill an accelerated
consideration.
No sooner had the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu,, read
President Muhammadu Buhari’s letter announcing the transmission of
the bill to the National Assembly, than the process for its
consideration started.
Buhari in the letter noted that the new wage bill recommended
N27, 000 for the least paid worker in Nigeria. Firms with less than
25 members of staff are exempted while punishment for defaulters
should be made very stringent.
Senate Leader, Ahmad Lawan, raised a point of order shortly
after the letter was read. drawing the attention of his colleagues
to suspend their rules to enable them to give an accelerated
hearing to the bill.
His motion was put to vote and members in attendance
overwhelmingly supported it after the motion was seconded by the
Minority Leader, Senator Abiodun Olujimi.
The bill was subsequently subjected to the first and second
reading while the senators who spoke on it supported the need to
expedite action on it to enable them to pass it into law within the
shortest possible time.
Details shortly……
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