The Ebonyi State government says it will commence payment of the new minimum wage as agreed by the federal government and the Organised Labour beginning from January, 2020. Gov. David Umahi said this on Friday in Abakaliki while signing into law, the state’s 2020 budget as passed by the House of Assembly. Umahi however, pleaded with the organised labour over the state government’s inability to pay arrears of the new wage, saying that the state had financial constraints a situation which everyone in the state understood. “We however have the N500m approved by the State House of Assembly to assist workers and other segments of the society, engage in alternative means of livelihood which is agriculture,” he said. The governor also announced that state government had graciously extended the date of the Abakpa Market Traders’ relocation to the new International Market by one month, from Jan.10 to Feb.10, 2020. “Every leader must be guided by conscience as I went to th