Comrade Peter is our 2025 Democracy Man of year – Taraba workers
By Andrew Ojih, Jalingo
Workers in Taraba State on Sunday said that the Taraba State Chairman of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Pater Jediel is their 2025 Democracy Man of the Year.
Comrade Peter Jediel
Some of the workers who spoke with journalists in Jalingo, said Comrade Peter Jediel remained their hero.
A staff in the Ministry Urban planning, Mr Bright Ayan hinted that Comrade peter’s effort to press the government to do the needful led to the reality of the new minimum wage workers are rightly enjoying.
“He is our Democracy Man of year, we will celebrate him now and always because he has demonstrated and documented his name in the guinness book of Taraba.
Despite pressures from government, he insisted that civil servants in the state enjoy and must be paid the minimum wage” he said.
Also, a junior staff with Taraba Tractor hiring Unit, Mrs Rejina Amsson said before the implementation of the new minimum wage, her salary was within 25, 000 to 30, 000 naira monthly.
She noted that immediately the NLC struggled, the minimum wage came into reality, her salary rise to N97, 000 monthly.
“I chose to make my amiable and incorruptible NLC Chairman, Comrade Peter Jediel my Democracy Man of year because his efforts to ensure that government attend to the plight of workers changed my living standard” she added.
On his part, the NLC Chairman, Comrade Peter Jediel while reacting to the applauds from Taraba workers said he will continue to show his commitment in ensuring that workers welfare remain his topmost priority.
Jediel who spoke through the Secretary of Union in the state, Comrade Wadumayi Buba Adamu, urged workers to remain committed and law abiding in their respective places of work.
He assured that the NLC will continue to struggle for the welfare of workers and masses in Taraba state.
