Báwo ni iye owó epo ṣe kan ẹnìkan tí ń gba owó iṣẹ́ tí ó kéré jùlọ (minimum wage)?
Bí o bá ń jèrè owó oṣù tí ó kéré jùlọ tí ó jẹ́ ₦70,000, rírà lítà 40 péré ti epo petirolu ní ₦1,400 fún lítà kan ná ọ ní ₦56,000. Ìyẹn jẹ́ ìdá 80 nínú ọgọ́rùn-ún owó oṣù rẹ tí ó ti lọ kí o tó ra oúnjẹ, san owó ilé, iná mànàmáná, owó ilé-ìwé tàbí àwọn gbèsè ìwòsàn. Mo ti tọ́ka sí pé àwọn ará ibi bí Saudi Arabia, Kuwait àti UAE ní gbogbogbòò ń jèrè owó púpọ̀ sí i nígbà tí wọ́n ń san owó tí ó kéré sí fún lítà kọ̀ọ̀kan. Ìyẹn ni ojúṣe ẹ̀dá ènìyàn tí ó wà lẹ́yìn àwọn nọ́mbà náà.
Àwọn ìdáhùn tó wà lórí ojú-ìwé yìí ni a túmọ̀ láti èdè Gẹ̀ẹ́sì nípasẹ̀ ẹ̀rọ, kò sì tíì ṣàyẹ̀wò rẹ̀ láti ọwọ́ atúmọ̀-èdè kan.
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A Nigerian earning the ₦70,000 statutory minimum wage requires ₦56,000 merely to buy 40 litres of petrol at ₦1,400 per litre. That is 80 per cent of an entire month’s minimum wage. Before that worker buys food, pays rent, electricity, school fees or medical bills, four-fifths of his monthly wage can disappear into just 40 litres of petrol.
Meanwhile, citizens of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE generally earn vastly more while paying less per litre. That is the human face missing from your economic argument.
And the pain does not end at the petrol station. Take the woman selling tomatoes at Mile 12. The farmer pays for energy to cultivate. A vehicle moves the tomatoes from the farm. Another truck carries them hundreds of kilometres to Lagos. The wholesaler pays transport. The retailer pays transport again. By the time those tomatoes reach the mother preparing dinner, expensive fuel has entered the final price several times over.