This move, according to Chinda, was to discuss another way for the implementation of a minimum wage that would reflect the current socio-economic situation in the country.
Kingsley Ogundu Chinda, the opposition leader in the House of Representatives, has said that no Nigerian labourer can survive on less than N100,000 a month.
The opposition lawmaker added that about 41 lawmakers across the 36 states of the federation and Abuja last week tabled the timely motion on living wage at plenary.
This move, according to Chinda, was to discuss another way for the implementation of a minimum wage that would reflect the current socio-economic situation in the country.
Chinda said lawmakers are also disturbed by the minimum wage situation.
He said, "No lawmaker today in Nigeria is happy about the situation in the country. That's why we're pushing for a living wage for all Nigerian workers. The take-home pay cannot take the worker home. We are very disturbed by the turn of events.
"The rising inflationary rate in the country has had a negative effect on the cost of living with the galloping inflation that cuts across all facets of life.
"As captured in the motion, Trade Economics in 2018 reported the living wage for an individual Nigerian and a Nigerian family to N43,200 per month and N137,600/respectively but this is pre-subsidy removal.
"Presently, no labourer can live in Nigeria with a wage less than N100,000 monthly.
"Also, according to the World Bank report, low purchasing in the country occasioned by high inflationary rate has led to an increase in poverty across the country.
"But Nigerians should rest assured that the resolutions reached by the HoR have been activated and the ad hoc committee will transmit the outcome to the Senate for speedy concurrence.
"As representatives of Nigerians, we are very disturbed, and we are not going to rest on our oars until there's a permanent solution.”
Meanwhile, the Nigeria Labour Congress had pegged the new national minimum wage for workers in the South-West geopolitical zone at N794,000.
This came amid the debate over what should be the new minimum wage considering the current economic realities.
The chairperson of the Lagos State chapter of the NLC, Funmi Sessi, during her presentation at the public hearing of the Tripartite Committee on National Minimum Wage in Ikeja, Lagos last Thursday, mentioned the figure.
According to Sessi, it was what members of the union in the South-West region unanimously agreed on.
The Nigerian Government had inaugurated a committee to work out what would be the next minimum wage in the country.