GOVERNOR Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has urged the Federal Government to provide essential amenities like electricity so as to reduce workers’ expenditure on them.
“As a government, we must provide the basic infrastructure that will give a better life to workers,’’ Gov Fashola said this during the 2015 Workers Day Commemoration in Lagos on Friday.
“We must look at the things that take away the disposable incomes of the Nigerian workers,’’ he added.
According to him workers are expending much of their salaries to enjoy some services that governments are supposed to provide them cheaply.
“Every worker that generates his own electricity is spending money that could have been used for something else,’’ he said, stressing that the power sector was a viable source of reducing unemployment in the country.
On salary parity, the governor noted that some workers in certain government-owned enterprises receive better remuneration than others. “It is not in all cases that Nigerian workers are underpaid.