Resident doctors at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, on Thursday staged a fresh protest in Osogbo, Osun State capital, to register their anger over the non-payment of their salaries for the past eight months.

The doctors asked Governor Rauf Aregbesola to resign from office if he failed to pay them by the end of June which he promised.

The doctors, who were led the their President, Dr. Olalekan Ajayi, had gathered at the premises of the hospital from where they trooped out to the streets singing anti-government songs.

Armed with placards, with various inscriptions like: “Even Slaves Deserve to be Fed; 230 Days of Unpaid Salaries and Ogbeni, Pay our Salaries,” the doctors caused traffic snarl at Station Road.

Members of the Association of Resident Doctors had, on May 12, staged a similar protest and marched to the House of Assembly where they dropped their protest letter.

Speaking in an interview with journalists at the end of the protest, ARD president said despite being owed eight months, doctors were not on strike but explained that they could not work because of the strike embarked upon by other categories of workers in the hospital.

He said, “We have not been paid for the past eight months. And since then, we have been lobbying and appealing to the government to help but till date we have not been paid.

“It has not only affected us as humans, it has affected our families and also our patients. We are telling the government of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola to do the needful.

“This is economic genocide in our state. It is not compatible with life. For these eight months, we have tried to maintain peace and industrial harmony. There is no official announcement that we are on strike but we can’t work.

“The hospital is down, everybody is down and there is no way we can actually work as professionals.”

Ajayi stated that patients were dying because of the financial crisis which he said had brought every sector of the state down.

The doctors said salary payment should be a priority for any government sensitive to the needs of the people.

They called on President Muhammadu Buhari to help Osun and other states out of the financial crisis which they said was worse than the problem of insecurity.

Slynonny:
How doMy Husband Buhari the Daura President is a failure to MANHOOD.
#Aisha_Buhari_d_Prostitute.

agarawu23:
I don't know the best 'word' I will use to describe your illness

demmy0325:
.. Illness from the pit of hell..

Slynonny:
AregbeDebtor pls resign or i report you to the Old tasteless Dullard Wine from Daura.
Your a failure to MANHOOD.
#Aisha_Buhari_d_Prostitute.

loomer:
As the whole people of osun state no fit come out in their numbers to stage a very peaceful protest so that this man go leave office, the thing just dey make me wonder weda na jazz him use hold all of them.

mctifey:


na only online protest dem dey do

Leaventainment:
okoo

demmy0325:
Y aregbe sef... Nobody shud bash aregbe again Until afta june30...






Leave the man alone.... Evn the gov owing 11mnths dnt get bashed like this... When he doesnt care bout the development of the state anymre and keep payin the workers salaries.... GOD punish anybody that will bash him on this forum... Maybe you nid to visit osun to see hw much the state have changd..



Rubbish!..