Good day, as a supporter of good and sound leadership I have a thing I have put together concerning this "strike" by workers issue.

Why some set of people are using this ongoing strike as a tool to score points against the incumbent party, the incumbent party supporters are going down digging up past actions of the opposition candidate concerning the same issue. As we have had them hit the front-page twice or less, it has already becoming a point to the incumbent pary supporters to console their leaders incapability to make good decisions for the country.

Nevertheless, that is not the main point why we are having this thread. The main reason why this thread is made is because the incumbent party supporters have been using a case of an opposition candidate to exonerate the woes of their party representative in leadership of this country.

At the same time promoting their new candidate as as the best person to salvage the mess created. Meanwhile this their candidate had the same issue with his successor. We wouldn't have had this thread if not for his input concerning the issue when, the successor carried out the plan suggested by him.. This person is no other body than Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Here below:

Tinubu urges Fashola to sack striking doctors


Former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday advised his successor, Governor Babatunde Fashola, to sack striking medical doctors.

The Medical Guild, the umbrella body of doctors working in the state’s hospitals, went on strike on February 5 over the refusal of the Fashola administration to implement the Consolidated Medical Salary Scale.

But Tinubu told a gathering of Christian leaders in Lagos that the strike was motivated by unnamed politicians. Tinubu also stated that it would be foolhardy for the state government to yield to the demands of the doctors, noting that instead, it should employ new doctors.

The ex-governor, while speaking on the call by the doctors for the reinstatement of a former the Chairman of the Medical Guild, Dr. Ibrahim Olaifa, recalled that the guild’s leader was employed during his administration based on the recommendation of the then governor of Oyo State, Dr. Lam Adesina. Tinubu said he would not condone Olaifa violating the rules of his employment.

He said, “Those people make me angry, there is no point holding a dialogue with them again. Sack them and recruit other doctors.

“We have provided conducive environment for them to work and yet they are still not satisfied. It is not compulsory you work for the state government; if you are not comfortable, you can go to the Federal Government that pays more or other private establishments.

“We are not going to reinstate him (Olaifa) because the moment you subject the authority given by the constitution to blackmail, you are finished.”

Fashola, on his part, explained that the crisis had lingered not because the state government refused to increase the salary of the doctors, but due to their insistence that the state administration must implement the CONMESS fully.

“The doctors are not complaining about the environment where they work. We have provided a conducive environment, with well equipped facilities for them to work with. But they are insisting that we pay what the Federal Government is paying its own doctors.

“Lagos has more doctors than the federal Government. We have increased the salaries of the doctors to 75 per cent and what that implies is that the most junior doctor in the state today has his salary increased from N110,000 to N170,000 while a consultant now has his salary increased from N300, 000 to N700,000,” he added.

He put his monthly salary as the governor of the state at N850,000 while other members of the State Executive Council were not earning above N500,000. He flayed the doctors’ request for the reinstatement of Olaifa, adding that the situation was being politicised as the doctor in question was presently running for the House of Representatives on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party in Oyo State.

When contacted on the telephone, the Secretary-General of the Lagos Medical Guild, Dr. Saheed Olajide, said, “The strike has no political undertone. I don’t believe Tinubu said so because he is a respected person.

“He could not have come out to say that. However, we are professional doctors, they are politicians. They should not link the strike with politics.

“What we are asking for is our welfare. There was a mutual agreement, part of which was that our leader (Olaifa) should be reinstated. They agreed to reinstate him before we called off the last strike but they have not done so.

“If the governor is saying Olaifa is a member of the PDP, he should check his records. Olaifa is running under Accord Party in Oyo State, not the PDP. We are not politicians and we are saying is that government should do what is right.”

The issue here is Tinubu threatened a sack without dialogue coming in place to hear and resolve the issue with them.

Is it telling us that one shouldn't speak up?
Or is he going to run a "dictatory" leadership?

Peter Obi.

Here is the very one the incumbent party supporters use as a defence mechanism..:

DOCTORS in the employ of Anambra State government yesterday called off their 13 months old strike.

The action was suspended when it apparently became obvious that the state government was not ready to shift ground on the 60 percent salary increase it offered the doctors when the strike began last year.

The Medical Association, NMA, in the state, headed by Dr. Emmanuel Ekwesianya and the state government team, headed by Secretary to the State Government, Chief Paul Odenigbo, signed the agreement in Awka calling off the strike.

The doctors embarked on the strike over the state government’s alleged refusal to implement the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure, CONMESS, approved for doctors working in government-owned hospitals in the country.


Ekwesianya said despite efforts to make government shift ground, it remained rigid on the 60 percent increase it offered to pay the doctors when negotiations began.

He said the doctors decided to call off the strike in the interest of the patients, adding that it was not good for the doctors to remain as rigid as government on the issue as people were suffering.


“We are serving the people and not government and we observe that it is the people that have continued to suffer over the past 13 months the doctors have been on strike,” he said.

The NMA chairman explained that a technical committee, headed by Professor O.O, Mbonu, had been set up to work out ways of smooth practice in the hospitals and urged all the striking doctors to go back to work immediately.


Vanguard recalls that negotiations between the doctors and government broke down as the two parties could not agree on the issue.

While government offered to pay 60 percent increase, in view of what it attributed to its poor resources, the NMA insisted that the state was capable of paying the new pay structure.

Here Peter Obi had a meeting with them and deliberated on the issue, Peter Obi gave them the 60 percent pay rise but they refused claiming they deserved more than that. Even when Peter obi made it know that the state resources are low for them to be paid very high as they wanted. It seems Peter obi had no other plan or resolution, he abandoned them and made them know his stance. Before the doctors later come together and call it off for the sake of the mass

Punched line here is PETER OBI LEAVING THEM TO MAKE THE CHOICE OF TAKING THE 60% RISE OR CONTINUE THE STRIKE..

I don't know how bad it seems.

Another point we can deduce from this whole thing is that " an average Nigerian is selfish and greedy" . in both Tinubu and obi cases, the doctors want pay rise and are not contented with what they have despite the high pay.

Seun
Lalasticlala
Mynd44

You dig a grave, we break every tomb open.

Try us.

Hmmm

I hope you read the positive things Fashola did.

I wonder how Tinubu fit into the situation


Lagos has more doctors than the federal Government. We have increased the salaries of the doctors to 75 per cent and what that implies is that the most junior doctor in the state today has his salary increased from N110,000 to N170,000 while a consultant now has his salary increased from N300, 000 to N700,000,” he added.

He put his monthly salary as the governor of the state at N850,000 while other members of the State Executive Council were not earning above N500,00


2. Part of discussion


When contacted on the telephone, the Secretary-General of the Lagos Medical Guild, Dr. Saheed Olajide, said, “The strike has no political undertone. I don’t believe Tinubu said so because he is a respected person.

thebosstrevor1:
I hope you read the positive things Fashola did.

I wonder how Tinubu fit into the situation


Lagos has more doctors than the federal Government. We have increased the salaries of the doctors to 75 per cent and what that implies is that the most junior doctor in the state today has his salary increased from N110,000 to N170,000 while a consultant now has his salary increased from N300, 000 to N700,000,” he added.

He put his monthly salary as the governor of the state at N850,000 while other members of the State Executive Council were not earning above N500,00


2. Part of discussion


When contacted on the telephone, the Secretary-General of the Lagos Medical Guild, Dr. Saheed Olajide, said, “The strike has no political undertone. I don’t believe Tinubu said so because he is a respected person.

He didn't believed that Tinubu said so, doesn't mean Tinubu didn't say it.

Take a look at how an administrator per excellence (obi) handled issues and see how that motor park tout (Mr agbado) handled issues.

One is a brain and one is pinky.

MayorOfDelta:


He didn't believed that Tinubu said so, doesn't mean Tinubu didn't say it.

you were there when Tinibu said so

Eddygourdo:
Take a look at how an administrator per excellence (obi) handled issues and see how that motor park tout (Mr agbado) handled issues.

One is a brain and one is pinky.

So so obvious... A leader that knows when to draw the line. A good negotiator and a purist...

Gave them what they needed not what they wanted...

Brilliant!

Eddygourdo:
Take a look at how an administrator per excellence (obi) handled issues and see how that motor park tout (Mr agbado) handled issues.

One is a brain and one is pinky.

13 months after.

Roboto11:

13 months after.

In some some sense it could be seen as the governor being insensitive but why agree to an agreement the government cannot keep; case study, ASUU palaver.

Noblechykk:

In some some sense it could be seen as the governor being insensitive but why agree to an agreement the government cannot keep; case study, ASUU palaver.

13 months is over a year.

Whatever concession you want to make for a governor under whose watch doctors refused to work for over a year, you must make for other leaders, regardless of the mitigating circumstances.