Workers Day: NTAC DG greets workers, drums support for Tinubu’s reforms

Director General of the Nigerian Technical Aid Corps, Hon. Yusuf Buba Yakub while drumming support for President Bola Tinubu reforms has called for consummate improvement in the welfare of Nigerian workers at Workers’ Day celebration.

In a statement released in Abuja last week signed by Special Assistant to NTAC DG (Media and Publicity) Nkem Anyata-Lafia, it noted that the Director General of the Nigerian Technical Aid Corps, Rt.Hon. Yusuf Buba Yakub has called for consummate improvement in the welfare of the Nigerian workers serving in the States and the private sector, saying workers everywhere in the world are in the heart of development and national progress and, therefore, deserve the best to maximize their output.

“This gesture was important in order to close the disparity that exists between the emoluments of federal government workers and those in the States and private organizations.

“While calling for a close scrutiny of the salaries of workers in the States and private institutions, he said it was no longer acceptable for workers to receive pays that can hardly take them home from work at the end of each day.

“NTAC boss congratulated Nigerian workers on the occasion of the celebration of this year’s Labour Day.

“He described the workers as “the hands that fertilize the earth of national development and service to all” and urged them to continue to give their best in the service of the nation and humanity.

“While calling for support for the Tinubu Administration to continue to make life better for workers and for all Nigerians, the former two-term federal lawmaker said the current Administration’s various reforms, particularly, with regards to the welfare of the Nigerian workers, had from the onset of the Administration indicated that Government this time was prepared to effectively prioritize the place of workers in Nigeria against the usual lip service by past Administrations” the statement read in part.