Fuel: Edo joins Kwara, reduces work days to three

Fuel: Edo joins Kwara, reduces work days to three

Edo State Government has announced the reduction of work days from five to three to cushion the effects of the petrol subsidy removal on civil servants.

This was came through a statement on Tuesday by the state governor, Godwin Obaseki.

With the policy, Edo has joined Kwara State, which earlier declared that all its workers would work for only three days in a week as part of measures to ease the burden of rising transport fares due to the fuel subsidy removal.

Governor Obaseki said his government shared the pains of the people, stressing that his administration would stand with them “in these very challenging times”.

“In the wake of fuel subsidy removal by the Federal Government, fuel prices have increased astronomically leading to a rise in prices of goods and services and overall cost of living,” he said.

As a proactive government, we have since taken the step to increase the minimum wage paid to workers in Edo state from the approved N30,000 to N40,000, the highest in the country today.

“We want to assure you that we will continue to pay this amount, while we hope to increase it even further if more allocation accrues to our state from the federal government in view of the expected savings occasioned by the removal of the fuel subsidy.”

He also said, “Edo state government is hereby reducing the number of work days that civil and public servants will have to commute to their workplaces from five days a week to three days a week till further notice. Workers will now work from home two days every week.”

He also added that the state is also working on deepening EdoBEST@Home initiative to create more virtual classes, thereby reducing the cost of commuting by parents, teachers and pupils to school.