States should pay the new minimum wage according to their income – El-Rufai

 

Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State, has said state governments should be allowed to pay the proposed new minimum wage based on their income.

He said that the new minimum wage should not be under the Federal Government.
El-Rufai spoke on Wednesday at the 2018 National Peer Learning Event organised at the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF, titled: “Mobilising Domestic Finance for Development” in Abuja.

The governor, who also stated that personal income tax should be collected by the states, emphasised need for amendments in the constitution so that some items can be removed in favour of the states.
Reacting to a question on why personal income tax should be given to states, the governor said: “I agree with you completely that in a federation there should be taxes that are national while others are sub-national.
“But if you look at our history, you will see that we come from civilian-military regimes and many of these personal income taxes Act were done by the military.

I dont agree with the new national minimum wage being under the federation, it should be carried oot by each state, according to their income.
“If you look at the 1963 Constitution, minimum wage was not in the inclusive list, it was added during the military rule. There are number of laws that were enacted during the military rule and there is a need to do something about them.”
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