Ah, my people! Wetin I go tell you now go make your belle dey turn. Naija workers don dey suffer oh! As inflation don waka enter 2024, our salaries wey dem sabi increase don dey fall like wetin no get weight.
According to Central Bank of Nigeria matter, real value of employees’ earnings don drop by N2.79 trillion. Na wetin make workers dey feel like say dem no fit buy any better thing again. Despite say dem increase salary from N63.83 trillion to N75.59 trillion, na only for mouth! Real money wey fit buy food don reduce!
You go hear say inflation no dey sleep oh! She open 2024 with 29.90% and by December, she don brew to 34.80%. Na so workers dey waka, they go collect plenty naira but go still dey look for wetin dem go chop.
Prof Segun Ajibola, wey be former President for Chartered Institute of Bankers, talk say na real power of wetin we dey earn be the koko matter. “If money dey your hand but you no fit buy anything, wetin you gain?” Na di gist wey he dey carry. E go shock you say some fresh graduates dey earn as low as N30,000 in factories or private schools just to manage life!
Ajibola even talk say if we bring informal sector matter join, e go make the wahala matter worse. Na serious palaver be that. As inflation dey pepper everybody, money wey dey enter pocket no fit keep up. Dem dey struggle, and na to manage dey work small dey bunch for mind of many Naija workers.
Meanwhile, Yinka Ogunnubi wey dey manage Association of Corporate Treasurers, talk say wage dey slow to catch inflation train. Abeg, make dem no slack! Some baba don adjust their workers’ pay sharp sharp when cost dey rise, but some still dey behave like say na 1990 we dey.
Trade union matter we go still gatz talk, ‘cause dem suppose dey ensure say as price dey rise, some juice go dey flow back to dem workers! If dem no do am faster, living standard go continue dey waka backward!
The Minister of Finance don already yarn say she go focus on wetin go fit change life for the common man. If dem just dey blow trumpet, but the person wey dey waka for road no fit feel di bump like say na kombi wey no gree start, na dia go be wahala!
So my people, as dis news dey shelle, make we dey watch how e go take affect our pocket and the wahala wey still dey pepper Naija. Na true our level go change, we go keep our eyes open!
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