By PERPETUA ONUEGBU

Labour Party has advised the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) against the planned salary increase for political office holders in the country.

The party’s interim National Publicity Secretary, Tony Akeni, gave this advice in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja.

Akeni said that the proposed salary increase as unconscionable, especially at this time when Nigeria is passing through economic hardship.

The party’s spokesman, who described the move as a misadventure, urged RMAFC to retrace its steps in the best interest of the country.

According to Labour Party, rather than increasing political office holders’ salaries, the commission should move for increase in the minimum wage of Nigerian workers from its present N70,000.

He quoted the United States Government as recently advocating for improvement in Nigeria’s minimum wage.

“If a foreign nation could demonstrate such empathy towards our suffering citizens, the RMAFC’s chairman and commission members have no valid excuse not to do more,” he said. (NAN)