In fulfilment of its earlier assurance to pay workers the new minimum wage, workers of Ogun State Government have started receiving the new salary package of N30,000.

Workers in Ogun State have been paid the new minimum wage, as civil servants and other members of the state’s workforce were in a frenzy mood when they received their pay on Friday, October 2020.

The governor has assured civil servants that the state government will commence payment of the new minimum wage in October

A cross-section of the workers, who spoke with journalists in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, said they were impressed with the governor’s unflinching commitment to workers’ welfare.

A staff with the one of the Ministries said he got a credit alert in the evening on Friday and observed the increment in his salary, which confirmed the payment of the new minimum wage to workers in the state.

According to him, “We, indeed, have a man of integrity as a governor in Ogun State. The governor promised he was going to pay the new minimum wage in October and today, he is one of the few governors in Nigeria to have started payment.

“It has been jubilation galore in our office since we got the credit alert and saw the increment. This is truly the dawn of a new era for workers in Ogun State.”

A secondary school teacher attached to a school in Odeda Local of the state said the new wage is most commendable, noting that the governor has always been a man of his words.

“I appreciate the governor for being prompt in the payment of the new minimum wage. Workers in Ogun State are full of praises for him as this is the first time, we are benefiting from such an increment without having a clash with government.”