ebdib:

Shut the eff up dude.
Why didn't you volunteer?
They're selfless willing to give up their lives for that.
You didn't do it and now you're saying they shouldn't be paid?
What sort of degenerate are you??
Without them, ebola would probably he ravishing your twisted brain now.

It's not a must to comment on things you know.
You can reserve your stupidity for things like dorobucci and tiwa savage.

• They'll eventually pay, you guys should take it easy, must you strike on everything? after all you still receive salary every month. Nigerians and money....

• Mo ri re, wetting be volunteer? Abi them dey craze ni?

• Your ignorance defies all limits. Who forced them to volunteer.

The doctors that almost died in Liberia volunteered and we're not paid a dime for risking their lives. If you are getting paid for a service rendered, that does not count as volunteering. Get hold of a dictionary or go read a copy of "English For Dummies" Foolsmond.

• These guys should cool down, dey go pay una....after all no b force dem force una go do d work....na only una cari una celf waka go.....So mek una cul down 4 Jesus

• If you don't have a dictionary, visit dictionary.com or google.com and check out d definition of "VOLUNTEER". When u in church and your pastor says, 'we need 10 volunteers for the ongoing site building tomorrow'. After raising ur hands and going to the site, does ur pastor/ church pay u? NO! Rather, at some point, they bring food for you guys and in the end, before you go home, they show a little appreciation.

• Those people wey dey go flood regions, war torn zones in the name of helping them with food and medicine, do they get paid?

• Choi See Moni N50,000 per day! Why won't they protest!

obailala:
Education in nigeria is nothing to talk about... i can tell u studied outside nigeria.

Where is the education of my people?... Must every word be read literally?

A volunteer is someone who willingly offers himself/herself to perform a task which others would rather not want to be involved in... That does not mean the person should not be paid especially when the person volunteered for a paid job. I work from Mondays to Fridays but sometimes my boss requests for 'volunteers' to work on weekends. If I volunteer to work on a weekend, I would be paid at a higher rate than what I earn normally.

Now with regards the ebola volunteers, no health worker would wish to go close to the ebola treatment centres especially due to the way health workers seem to have been majority of the victims in Nigeria and also because of the shabby way in which the government treats the victims.. For this reason, there has to be an enticing benefit package for whoever volunteers to work in these centres... I wonder why this simple logic is too difficult for supposedly enlightened Nigerians to understand... Even with the package promised by the government, only a few health workers still came forward and now it is alleged that the government is defaulting in its promises..

Instead of discussing the diabolic actions of the government or whoever is responsible for paying their entitlements, Nigerians who should be worried are here debating the meaning of the word 'volunteer'

Chaleeee:

Your ignorance defies all limits. Who forced them to volunteer The doctors that almost died in Liberia volunteered and we're not paid a dime for risking their lives.

If you are getting paid for a service rendered, that does not count as volunteering.
Get hold of a dictionary or go read a copy of "English For Dummies"
Foolsmond.

lomaxx: I need to check my dictionary for the meaning of "volunteer" again. Maybe the definition has changed.

elomepee:




Why you sef no volunter since they don't deserve to be paid. Go volunteer your life for Ebola.


I don't know why people just like saying whatever comes to their mouth. Must you comment?

xamuel17: Dear fools, who think EVD volunteers shouldn't be paid.. Should go to hell.. These people are like soldiers in war fronts.. To me, I feel they should increase their pay and never mess with their allowance!

Chaleeee:

Your ignorance defies all limits. Who forced them to volunteer The doctors that almost died in Liberia volunteered and we're not paid a dime for risking their lives.

If you are getting paid for a service rendered, that does not count as volunteering.
Get hold of a dictionary or go read a copy of "English For Dummies"
Foolsmond.

jnrbayano:

"Disclaimer: I am not responsible for anything that I post or upload on Nairaland."

The above is what your signature says.
For that reason, the distance your thread is to frontpage is same as from Bayelsa to Sokoto journeying on foot.

wickyyolo: Only in Nigeria they have a different definition of volunteer. Usually being a volunteer, you don't expect pay, but if at last they decide to pay you that's fine. And any amount they pay you accept it.

bright007:
Where do I click to be a moderator?

bright007:
Where do I click to be a moderator?

pDude: This is the reason why Nigeria is cursed with all manner of curses.

How on earth will you not pay someone after he has worked? Where on earth does that happen?

You attended all manner of holy ghost nights and night vigils yet compassion for your fellow human being is lacking. And that is why Nigeria is cursed.

Useless country.

ceaser: Below are some of the sad responses from readers (Nigerian readers of course):



My take:
•••• So why make hasty conclusions on these volunteers and even picking on them as the enemies? And being fully aware of what "volunteer" means, why do some uninformed/ill-informed, sentiment-driven Nigerians decide "to treat the ringworm, but sparing the leprosy in the process"?

The government knows that things will most likely play out in this manner (of being spared of the blame) as it has always happened before where they as the culprit are never held responsible for their inaction. That is why they are willing to take the gamble once again and luckily, it's gonna be a good gamble.

To the millions of Nigerians still groping in their self-imposed darkness, always choosing to hang Jesus in place of Barnabas, perhaps you should think of the following:

1. With an imminent threat to public health safety in the grades of Liberia, Congo and Guinea following the importation of the deadly disease into the country by Sawyer, the government came out to announce that volunteers for "Patrick Sawyer's disease (my own contraption) containment team should sign up, with an AGREEMENT of a FIXED amount of between 40,000 to 50,000 naira per shift as inducement and compensation for a SUICIDE MISSION. They even went as far as promising life insurance, but we all know where our pension funds end even while alive let alone in death. Most health workers dismissed the offer on account of trust issues, having just come out of an episode of HABITUAL GOVERNMENT FAILED AGREEMENT. They even don't wanna discuss it. That's how bad it was.

Note that the morale of these foot soldiers (doctors) had just been dampened, therefore any attempts to successfully mobilize them for another definite suicidal mission will only require a miracle. Some particularly mentioned that even if the government ups the offer to 1 million naira per shift, they wouldn't accede their call for sacrifice based on trust issues - provision of PPEs and a FAKE LIFE INSURANCE claim.

2. Following this plea, Nigerians were quick to echo their insincere government in calling for "volunteers" from the health sector, equally citing the monetary that comes with the suicide mission as "mouth-watering" enough. They even commended the government for such initiative as the life insurance cover even though it's still on paper and very unlikely to see the light of the day.

3. Aside from the clinical aspect, most of the required works at these isolation centres are unskilled - cleaners for example - therefore I'd expected many Nigerians including those who see EVD volunteers work as the exact dictionary meaning of "volunteer" to have signed up, more so that many of them are job seekers and the remuneration is above the roof. I even hoped against hope that the health minister and Lagos state health commissioner will both don the Hamzat suit in the name of leading by example even if it's just to call journalists, stage a media hype and have them take pictures of him standing outside the compound of the isolation centres wearing the suit. But I'm surprised that they've rather chosen to hide behind the curtains and cast aspersions on the chivalric volunteers for demanding the PITTANCE promised for the suicide mission from the government.

4. Even the "oyinbos" that coined the word "volunteer" know better to use their discretion in its use. The practice is for volunteers to be paid a stipend - an amount not commensurate with the service they offer. Doctors-without-borders is a voluntary international setup, yet the volunteers get their promised stipend AS AT WHEN DUE. And I honestly think 40k is not too much a stipend for a day full of risk for a man and his families, and even you that you that's reading this - talking of how this EVD spreads. After all and unjustifiably so, your senators collect more as daily hazard-free sitting allowance in the chambers.

Also remember that the two American doctors working as volunteers for Samaritans' purse (itself a voluntary organisation) get stipends and they were not neglected by their government in their most hour of need and vulnerability when they too got infected. That's the type of government that earns the respect and trust of its citizens, enough to invoke sacrificial patriotism in such citizens.

obailala: Before now I thought it was the greed and idiocy of our leaders that would kill us all.. but in recent times, I've come to an understanding that it's only our collective foolishness that can make the greed of our leaders kill us... What kind of foolishness would make anyone blame the health workers instead of the government in a situation like this?

kolajoo: Can you define an "Agreement" made to these people risking their life. Mtscheww I pity for my country.

ebdib:

Shut the eff up dude.
Why didn't you volunteer?
They're selfless willing to give up their lives for that.
You didn't do it and now you're saying they shouldn't be paid?
What sort of degenerate are you??
Without them, ebola would probably he ravishing your twisted brain now.

It's not a must to comment on things you know.
You can reserve your stupidity for things like dorobucci and tiwa savage.

Chaleeee:

Your ignorance defies all limits. Who forced them to volunteer The doctors that almost died in Liberia volunteered and we're not paid a dime for risking their lives.

If you are getting paid for a service rendered, that does not count as volunteering.
Get hold of a dictionary or go read a copy of "English For Dummies"
Foolsmond.

lomaxx: I need to check my dictionary for the meaning of "volunteer" again. Maybe the definition has changed.

hjr2014: We value money more than anything else