Osun State Government has technically sacked the doctors
in its employ who have been on strike since September
28th 2015.
The Chairman, Special Committee on Health, Dr. Simon
Afolayan, announced at a press conference in Osogbo on
Friday that the state considered that the striking doctors
had resigned their appointments.
He explained that the doctors had not been sacked because
no letter of sack was issued to any of them but they
( striking doctors) were deemed to resign their
appointments because of their refusal to work for more than
six months.
According to him, the doctors started their strike on April 2,
2015.
However, members of the Osun State Association of
Medical and Dental Officers under the Hospitals
Management Board and Association of Resident Doctors at
LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Osogbo embarked on an
indefinite strike on September 28, 2015 because of payment
of half salaries and poor condition of service.
Afolayan said, ” Doctors are parts of the civil service and by
the civil service rule you cannot abandon your duty post for
six months without reason and not face the consequences.
If you do so, it is deemed that you have resigned your
appointment. This rule has taken effect.”
Afolayan stated that those who still wanted to work with
the government had been given a fresh opportunity.
He said the state could not afford to pay the doctors’
salaries in full because of the financial crisis facing the
state and the nation.
According to him, out of about 40,000 workforce in the state
civil service, doctors working with the Osun State Hospitals
Management Board are less were less than 100.
He described the demands of the doctors as impossible,
saying there would be anarchy in the state if the
government decided to pay full salaries to doctors and
continue to pay other civil servants half salaries.
He said the state doctors did not sack any of the doctors
but the doctors had decided to discontinue rendering their
services by abandoning their duties for over six months.
It will be recalled that Governor Rauf Aregbesola had in
January threatened to implement the civil service rule
against the doctors.
The state government, after this, advertised the positions of
the doctors and Afolayan stated that some doctors had
applied for the vacant positions.

source: http://www.nigerianeye.com/2016/02/osun-aregbesola-sacks-striking-doctors.html?m=1

Gobe

it is not a new issue, he once threatened to sack all teachers before so..

in Nnamdi kanu's voice Aregberascal.