The Kwara state chapters of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) have appealed to the state government to implement the new minimum wage of N18, 000 at parastatals, including regular payment of emolument of local government pensioners among others.

The state chairman of NLC, Alhaji Faruq Umar Akanbi, while addressing workers at the state stadium on Tuesday also declared that there was need for the state government to pay the remaining 50% balance of CONHESS in the state.

"We will be appreciative if these categories of people can also be paid promptly like other workers on the payroll of the state government. I must however reiterate here that the primary school teachers in this state always suffer loss of annual increment whenever the government awards this to the workers. We wish to plead passionately with the authorities of SUBEB to address this and the outstanding promotion of its teachers."

The congress while appealing to the state government to reconsider the 900 staff of SUBEB laid off due to alleged  breach of process of employment, said "rather than lay them off, they could be re-absorbed after submitting evidence of registration with KWABES  secretariat or data base".

In his address, TUC chairman, Comrade Isreal Adebisi, said the congress also used the opportunity to make strong case "for the government parastals in the state; the policy of ‘little allocation’ is seriously affecting a good number of them most especially in terms of payment of staff salaries".

He added that the congress would appreciate if that policy will be reviewed stressing that it would impact positively on the state economy.