No fewer than 40 casual staff of University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) embarked on massive protest on the 20th December 2016 over nonpayment of 14 months’ salaries.

They were led by Comrade Fortune Sampson, said to be the head of the sanitation department of the hospital.

Reacting, Chief Medical Director of the Hospital, Professor Thomas Agan, appealed to the striking workers to suspend their action, as the management was making efforts to pay them.

As reported by dailytrust.com.ng, the workers barricaded the entry gate to the hospital as early as 6 am, chanting solidarity songs and stopping both staff and patients from accessing the hospital. Both cars and pedestrians were turned back by the angry workers.

Speaking to journalists, Sampson said, “We handle the sanitation of the hospital by cleaning the offices, toilets, mortuary and floors and for 14 months now we have not been paid our monthly stipends in spite of the hazardous work we do.”

Sampson said they were irked by a letter dated Monday, 19th December from the hospital management terminating their appointments without any word about their backlog of salaries.

“We have worked with this hospital for five years now on a monthly allowance of N15,000 and for the past one year and four months , I have not been paid and yet I have been reporting for work only for them to tell me my services are no more required,” Samson said.

http://brainnewsng.com/ucth-workers-protest-unpaid-salaries/

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Nigeria is doomed

They voted for change. So if hear pim, them go hear wen.

14 months? How?

A whole 1 year you go home to tell your family stories?
How do they feed?
How?
How?
I can't imagine 1 year 2 months. And they can speak up just few days to Xmas.

Fela, saw Nigeria from beginning to the end and even profound the solution, until we use the man's template and idea, Nigeria will never go forward.


Suffering and smiling.

ahahaaha

In Nigeria, you just can't win. To get a job is a job on its own. To get paid is a problem.

Even if you are self employed and run your own business, clients will owe you up and down even worse than when you are an employee being owed salaries. I myself am a living witness to this. To get the client is stress. To make them commit to a project is a marathon event. To get them to approve your work after going back and forth several times is war. Then after all that, when it is time to pay, they will start clearing their throat and speaking English. Many of them will just ignore you altogether and pretend you don't exist. When you call, it's their receptionist that will answer. When you send emails, no reply.

Then after several weeks they will pay like 25% of what they are meant to pay and then dump another impossible assignment and deadline on your head, linking the payment of your outstanding to the delivery of this new project. I did this merry go round for most of 2016 before I looked in the mirror one day and saw a patch of shiny white hair on my 26 year old head. Then I realised I was literally dying, and for what? So now I'm back to paid employment but processing my Canadian permanent residency.

I think it's time we stop pretending to ourselves and accept that Nigeria is a dying country running a poverty economy. There is no way out. The best thing anyone can do for themselves right now is to get out. This place is hell itself.

Wicked leaders everywhere

this is sad

ok

like i said


those who called Nigeria a ZOO



get proved right by the way

Where are we heading to in this country?

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Fela, saw Nigeria from beginning to the end and even profound the solution, until we use the man's template and idea, Nigeria will never go forward.


Suffering and smilling

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GEJPosterity:
In Nigeria, you just can't win. To get a job is a job on its own. To get paid is a problem.

Even if you are self employed and run your own business, clients will owe you up and down even worse than when you are an employee being owed salaries. I myself am a living witness to this. To get the client is stress. To make them commit to a project is a marathon event. To get them to approve your work after going back and forth several times is war. Then after all that, when it is time to pay, they will start clearing their throat and speaking English. Many of them will just ignore you altogether and pretend you don't exist. When you call, it's their receptionist that will answer. When you send emails, no reply.

Then after several weeks they will pay like 25% of what they are meant to pay and then dump another impossible assignment and deadline on your head, linking the payment of your outstanding to the delivery of this new project. I did this merry go round for most of 2016 before I looked in the mirror one day and saw a patch of shiny white hair on my 26 year old head. Then I realised I was literally dying, and for what? So now I'm back to paid employment but processing my Canadian permanent residency.

I think it's time we stop pretending to ourselves and accept that Nigeria is a dying country running a poverty economy. There is no way out. The best thing anyone can do for themselves right now is to get out. This place is hell itself.

this country is hell on earth

This is madness.

APC Chain!

This is totally unacceptable and gross irresponsibility from the management of UCTH!