This comes weeks after he faulted the calls by some state governors to reduce the minimum wage of N18,000.
According to Bruce, governors who cannot pay the N18,000 minimum wage should not be allowed to spend multi millions on Christmas hampers for people like him who can afford it.
Ben Murray Bruce will stone govt houses who offer him xmas hampers
The senator in a series of tweets, warned the state governors against giving Christmas hampers during the yuletide without paying the arrears of workers.
See his tweets below:
Govs who cant pay ₦18K minimum wage should not be
allowed to spend multi millions on Christmas hampers for people like me
who can afford it.
— Ben Murray-Bruce (@benmurraybruce) December 15, 2015
I can’t understand why any govt agency will give out Christmas
hampers to elites when 2 million IDPs are starving in this very country!
— Ben Murray-Bruce (@benmurraybruce) December 15, 2015
I serve notice to any govt agency. If you bring
Christmas hampers to me when you have not paid workers salary I will
stone you with it!
— Ben Murray-Bruce (@benmurraybruce) December 15, 2015
Rather than spend millions decorating Govt houses and streets for Christmas, that money is better spent to #PayworkersMinimumWagePromptly!
— Ben Murray-Bruce (@benmurraybruce) December 15, 2015
Ben Bruce’s remarks comes just days after Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun state was criticized for allegedly approving N50million on fireworks and Christmas decorations.
The allegation was made by the Osun state chapter of the PDP on December 14, who described the project as “wasteful spending and misplacement of priority”.
According to the PDP, Aregbesola should give pay workers salary and not waste money on fireworks.
