The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has said the Federal Government does not owe the striking members of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors or other health workers in the country.

He stated that only “illegally recruited” doctors are not being paid because they were neither captured by the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation nor were their payments provided for by the Budget Office.

Speaking during the open session of the meeting of the Presidential Committee on Salaries with the leadership of the Joint Health Sector Unions in Abuja on Tuesday, Ngige referred to the presidential waiver for employment into the health and defence ministries in view of the general embargo on employment and assured that doctors illegally recruited would have their service regularized in due course.

He noted, “NARD goes about telling Nigerians that government owes them salaries and that government is not taking the problems in the health sector seriously. But this is not true. It is incorrect.

“No doctor, nurse, pharmacist, or any other health worker including the driver is owed monthly salary; the government pays as and when due.
“The truth is that NARD doctors fail to tell Nigerians that their colleagues who are owed salaries are the ones illegally recruited and were, therefore, neither captured by the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation nor were their payments provided for by the Budget Office of the Federation.

“Monthly salaries are done as and when due for those legitimately employed by the Federal Government but not to those illegally employed and who need their appointments regularized and captured in the finances of government for payment. This takes a process which is not accomplished overnight.”

The minister further said the FG owed few doctors and other workers the 2020 COVID-19 allowance, besides the arrears of the consequential adjustment of the National Minimum Wage and skipping allowance which cut across other sectors, noting that work was in progress to clear these.

He blamed the Nigerian Medical Association and JOHESU for bringing segreworkers.in the negotiation for the new hazard allowance which he said the Federal Government already budgeted N37.5billion for.

The Minister of State for Health, Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, said it was a wrong time to go on strike, noting that despite financial constraints, the government was committed to payment of salaries of doctors and health workers.

The Minister of State for Finance, Budget, and Planning, Clement Agba, regretted the expanding budgetary expenditure of the government even as revenue continues to dwindle.

President of JOHESU, Josiah Biobelemonye, pressed for the swift resolution of the challenges facing its members to avoid forcing them to strike.

The meeting is still ongoing as of the time of filing this report.

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Since you guys no dey even receive treatment here I know you guys are not affected by the strike...

Las Las the masses no go get option dan to start subscribing to Native Dr...

They should all go to Saudi Arabia, our fire fathers used agbo, we will go back to the root

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Na Lai....

Chris Nigige should please tell us how to identify these llegally recruited doctors so that we can avoid them when we visit hospitals.

Prerequisites for being in Buhari's cabinet

1. MUST have no conscience

2. MUST be shameless

3. MUST be a chronic liar

Every other vices are welcomed but these 3 are constants

I am really looking forward to the end of this government and it's numerous issues. Ngige as a minister of labour has been a disaster. All ministers are just Ill suited for the various roles they occupy

You ngige and cabinet are very stupid after the doctors spending 7 years in school ,they eventually manage to come out you say you nor get budget for new recruits because some are illegal , we dey craze for this country

Thunder.

Please come and do your work here

Damnnn niggar
Isoright ....

Ngige is full of shit

I think it's high time we opted for traditional medicine

If doctors like make Dem go on strike

Babalawo no go ever go on strike

Let's learn to use alternative medicine




Abeg check my siggy

Shameful leaders.

They'll move to Saudi Arabia


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Mental evaluation should be made compulsory for these guys.

Sometimes I wonder their children cope with the national embarrassment.

SMH

But these ministers are getting their salary
Nawaoo

Wat a country

Lies lies ...Oga Minister hanging on straws...Sack looming ...


"He stated that only “illegally recruited” doctors are not being paid because they were neither captured by the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation nor were their payments provided for by the Budget Office."

Do the right thing NOW.

NwaAmaikpe:




Chris Nigige should please tell us how to identify these llegally recruited doctors so that we can avoid them when we visit hospitals.

The illegality has nothing to do with their qualification or ability.
Rather,it has to do with their entrant to the job.
For the fact that government is ready to regularize their appointments shows that they are actually qualified.

They should try and do something.

But senator,reps, ministers were been paid huge amount of money.
This country tire me ooo

You see this Chris Ngige of a man, he is the most useless minister currently in Nigeria.

I have always told people that ruling as a governor is not a guarantee that the person has sense. Are Ngige, see Fashola.

Hmmmmm

Lol, illegally recruited doctors that you directed the CMD’s to employ. To capture them na wahala. Without those “illegally recruited doctors “, some of the departments in those hospitals will not have a single Junior reg.

This man keeps yarning gibberish from both sides of his mouth...
"No Doctor or health worker is owed salary"

"Only illegally recruited Doctors are not being paid"

Who does this unfortunate minister think he's misleading or deceiving

Well, only gullible Nigerians will fall for this deceptive tactics!

#SackNgigeNow

tolakush92:

I think it's high time we opted for traditional medicine

If doctors like make Dem go on strike

Babalawo no go ever go on strike

Let's learn to use alternative medicine




Abeg check my siggy

Your type keep making outsiders see us as foolish. How can you spew such repulsive words in the 21st century?
Same you, wife or relative will need surgery one day and will be seen begging for your life to be saved but you will be online typing rubbish to derail scientific and appropriate reasoning.

Useless FG dey never pay us last month salary

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tolakush92:

I think it's high time we opted for traditional medicine

If doctors like make Dem go on strike

Babalawo no go ever go on strike

Let's learn to use alternative medicine




Abeg check my siggy

Nobody hold you make you nor use herbal medicine. Go ahead and usr my brother. Na you get your body,!