The chairman of the Abakaliki rice mill industry, comrade Obeji Linus, has applauded the Ebonyi state governor, R.t. Hon. Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru, on the implementation of the 70,000 naira national minimum wage.

Governor Nwifuru had announced that workers in the state would henceforth be paid salaries according to the approved national minimum wage by the federal government, which has brought excitement amongst them.

Speaking with journalists in Abakaliki, the state capital, Comrade Obeji, who commended the governor's gestures to workers in the state, said it would go along way to cushion the effects of hardship on the people.

"The impacts of the Governor's administration on the people of Ebonyi State are really becoming monumental to the extent that the worker's salary that he has increased has gone along way to ameliorating the sufferings of our people, who were hitherto abandoned.

"The steps that the Governor has taken towards the welfare of workers are monumental; the impacts are very obvious; he started from paying gratuity and pension, then increased salaries, and in December he gave each civil servant the sum of one hundred thousand naira," Obeji said.

It would be recalled that on the first of May 2024, during the worker's day celebration, the governor had pronounced that he was going to implement the national minimum wage, pending when the tripartite committee was able to come out with their resolution.

"It must be on record that he was the first among the southeast governors to say that he was going to pay; this governor is indeed anchoring his administration on people's charter of needs, which means touching the lives of people, the lives of average workers in the state is smiling, and he has given them value.

He equally commended him for employing fresh workers into the state civil service, noting that his people-oriented policies have rekindled the munds of citizens to consider working for the government.

Notably Ebonyi is blessed with good leadership