Farmers Reject Exchange Of Motorcycles As Payment For Farm Labour

Date: 2023-10-04

Members of the Farmers Economic Empowerment Association (FEEMA) have said they will no longer accept Bajaj Motorcycles in exchange for a settlement of labour wages for foreign nationals who work as labourers on their farms.

The farmers said instead of their usual practice of buying motorcycles as a means of payment for farm labour for the foreigners, they would pay the sum of N400,000 as a fee for work done in the 2023 farming season, while wages would be determined by the amount of work done in subsequent years.

Members of FEEMA's section of the Obada Market, Kishi, Irepo local government area of Oyo State reached the resolutions at their national conference held between September 10 and 14, 2023.

Presenting the resolutions to the national chairman of FEEMA, Prof Abubakar Aliagan in Ilorin, Kwara State yesterday, a delegation led by Alh Abdulhameed Baba-Epe said that the resolutions were reached at the conference attended by members across the country including Oyo, Kwara, Kogi, Niger, Ekiti, Osun, amongst other states.

In the communique presented to Aliagan which was signed by the national vice chairman and national secretary of the association, Alh Adam Giro Tijani and Barr. Al-Amin Adewale, “the association affirms the fact that farming is the backbone of the national economy and any anomaly or dispute in the agricultural sector connotes a danger in the feeding of the nation and hence.

“At the said conference, the members observed the anomaly of payment of a unit of Bajaj Boxer motorcycle by the members of the association to each labourer, even though, the quantity of the work done does not tantamount to the exorbitant price of the motorcycle being paid,” the communique reads in part.

The association said the arrangement involved uncertainty and led to deception and reluctance to work on the part of the labourers as many of them work far below the agreed daily expectation.

“The convention on the ground is that each labourer would plough among others about 0.3 acres of land daily, while most of them hardly plough 0.1 acres of land per day and each labourer anticipates a unit of Bajaj Boxer motorcycle at the end of the year,” he said.

The association, however, resolved that the members will pay the sum of N400,000 as the reward, wages and or workmanship to any labourer employed for this year's farming season. They also said the wages of the labourer will now be determined by quantifying and or estimating each work carried out by the labourer as this involves transparency and is devoid of any attempt to cheat which may be observed from any of the two parties.”

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Kwara State Football Association     Kamaldeen Kehinde     Sabitiyu Grillo     Solomon Edoja     Alore     Lawal Olohungbebe     Bayo Ojo     Okasanmi Ajayi     Adolescent Girls Initiative For Learning And Empowerment     Michael Ologundea     Tope Daramola     Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin     Tinubu Legacy Forum     Lukman Oyebanji Fagbemi     Goodluck Jonathan     Omoniyi     Ilesha-Baruba     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Ndakene     Olokoba     Ahmed Ayinla Jimoh     Kwasu     Al-Adaby     Imodoye Writer’s Enclave     Chief Imam Of Omu-Aran     Adeola Abraham     Markaz Arabic And Islamic Training Institute, Agege     Agboola Babatunde     Harafat E. Mukadam     Emir Of Ilorin     Saadatu Modibbo-Kawu     The Herald     Saka Abimbola Isau     Aminat Ahmed     Nigeria Computer Society     Shagari     Okedare     Ibrahim Orire     Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman     Age AbdulKareem     Shaaba Lafiagi     Oluwarotimi Boluwatife Adenike     Isiaka AbdulRazaq     Halimah Perogi     Abubakar Abdulraheem     Bello John Olanrewaju     Kwara TV     Buari Edun     Ilesha Gwanara Road     Al-Hikmah Radio     Alimi Abdulrazaq     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Yusuf Amuda Aluko     Ahmed Dankaya     Mamatu Abdullahi     Association Of Kwara State Online Media Practitioners     Saka Asiat Ayinke     Garba Dogo     Geri-Alimi Split Diamond Interchange     Oju Ekun Sarumi     Oba Abu     Kola Shittu     Kulende-UITH     JAAC     AIT Ilorin     Alfa Belgore     Amada Jidda     Adamu Jemilat-Baki     KWASEIC     Omotosho     HICA     Habeeb Saidu     Kayode Laro     Sulyman Abdulkareem     Olabimpe Olani     CACOVID Palliatives     Olaitan Buraimoh    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board     Abubakar Imam     CCT     Muhammad Ghali Alaaya     Sanitation Exercise     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Muslim Media Watch Group Of Nigeria     Kwara State Geographic Information Service     Saliu Shola Taofeek     Afonja Descendants Union     Yaru     IsDB     Ibrahim Mashood     GANZY     Dasuki Belgore     Taofeeq Olateju     Ifelodun     Bayo Onimago     Mary Kemi Adeosun     Abdulwaheed Musa     Ilesha-Baruba-Gwanara     Suraj Tunji Oyewale     Ilorin Metro Park     GRA     Saidu Kawu     Abdulkadir Orire     Na\'Allah     Labour Party     Mazars Consulting     Saliu Oluwole     Barakat Community Secondary School     Omoniyi Ayinla     Adijat Adebiyi     Asa     Yetunde Balogun     Suwa-Arabs     Sobi Hill     Sam Okaula     Tafida     Olaosebikan     Ministry Of Women Affairs And Social Development     Kubra Kazum     Edu     Sebastine Obasi     Tunde Oyawoye     Gbemisola Saraki     Kassim Babamale     Salaudeen Oyewale     LABTOP     Government House     Kwara Polytechnic     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Bashir Adigun     Olofa Of Offa     Abdulwahab Olarewaju Issa     Kolade Solagberu     Yoonus Kola Olatinwo     Ubandawaki     Plat Technologies Limited     Abdulrauf Yusuf     KWASAA     Roheemat Hammed     Najim Yaasin     Mohammed Yahaya Barki     Kwara State Health Insurance Agency     Isiaka Gold     Flights To Ilorin     TESCOM     Tunde Yusuf     Babaloja-General     Agor Market     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Olaiya Lawal     Saliu Tunde Bello     Omupo     Stephen Fasakin     Ita-Ore