Wale Ajetunmobi, a media aide to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has tackled Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in the last general elections for faulting the N85,000 minimum wage announced for Lagos civil servants.
Sowore had compared the N85,000 minimum wage that Sanwo-Olu pledged to pay with the fare of the newly launched Lagos Red Line rail, which cost N1,500 per trip from Agbado to Oyingbo.
The activist condemned the minimum wage saying civil servants will spend N15,000 boarding the train to work weekly and N60,000 in a month.
He wrote on Facebook, “Yesterday the Lagos state Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu launched a Redline train with fanfare, it costs N1,500 per trip, N15k per week, N60k monthly, also he launched Lagos’s minimum wage at N85k per month. If workers take the redline to work, THEN!?”
Responding to Sowore via his X account, Ajetunmobi claimed that the publisher of Sahara Reporters Media Group pays the sum of N4,000 per article to his writers.
Stressing that Sowore has no moral ground to speak against Sanwo-Olu’s minimum wage, the media aide said, “Egbon, sometimes you need to stop capping and stop behaving like someone who cares about people more than anyone else. You are not the one to do this. I’m sure we both know why. At your Sahara Reporters, you remunerate those hungry kids you scouted from campuses to be writing articles for the medium with an insulting stipend (last I knew was N4,000) — an amount so small from the huge funding you get from your foreign donors.
“How much are you even paying those hungry kids you regularly deploy to protests? One of your student-activists said you gave them IoU after last August’s protest. If there are people who don’t have the moral right to speak about minimum wage, you are one of them.”
