The Lagos State lawmaker representing Oshodi/Isolo Federal Constituency II at the House of Representatives, Ganiyu Johnson, said he was planning to propose bills to stop nurses and pharmacists from migrating out of the country.

This is coming barely a week after the bill he sponsored on compelling medical and dental graduates to render five-year compulsory services within Nigeria before being granted full licence to practice, passed the second reading at the Green Chamber.

The legislation is titled, ‘A Bill for an Act to amend the Medical and Dental Practitioners Act, Cap. M379, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 to mandate any Nigeria-trained medical or dental practitioner to practise in Nigeria for a minimum of five years before being granted a full licence by the council to make quality health services available to Nigeria; and for related matters.’ The bill, he said, would check the mass exodus of medical professionals from the country.

Stakeholders in the health sector, however, said the bill was discriminatory, harsh, and an example of modern-day slavery. According to them, the bill would not resolve the brain-drain but may worsen it.

Speaking on Channels Television programme tagged ‘Hard Copy,’ Ganiyu said the proposed bill was borne out of his passion for the healthcare sector. For me, “For me, I think we are in the right direction.

The reason being that we cannot continue to watch Nigerians die. We have over 200 million people in this country facing very few doctors and with these few doctors, there’s always capital flight every year, so (it is) the reasonable thing to do.

As much as I agree that we need to improve their welfare packages which through my motion, I canvassed for that; There was a motion that I raised that we need to improve on their welfare packages.

“We need to upgrade and maintain some health facilities such as the primary health centres, we should upgrade some of them to general hospital standards, then we should also maintain and upgrade some of our general hospitals to specialist hospitals, then we should also maintain and upgrade some of our specialist hospitals to research institutes, by doing that, we are creating jobs, openings for the doctors,” he said.

Defending the bill, he said the five-year proposal was inclusive of doctors’ housemanship, and the youth service year, thereby encouraging them to become specialists in the country.

Speaking further, he said, “There is another bill coming up on nurses, and another one for the pharmacists. I’m going to read that very soon. That is why I said this is just the first phase and it is a short-term measure, it is not a permanent solution.

“It is a stop-gap, short-term measure for us to take stock of what we have and whether it is going to solve the problem or not, it is a different thing, but by the time we are able to mitigate against this using this approach, I know with time, it is going to be a win-win for the doctors and the country as a whole.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/lawmaker-to-propose-bills-stopping-nurses-pharmacists-migration/%3famp

MEANWHILE;
Reps Reject Bill Seeking To Bar Public Officers’ Children From Studying Abroad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf0Q0l1HjLM

Lawmakers in the House of Representatives on Thursday rejected a bill seeking to prevent public officers from sending their children to schools overseas.

Some of them insisted that it infringes on the fundamental human rights of Nigerians. Others argued that some public officers do not control public funds and should not be prevented from giving their children the best education that they can afford.

The bill, which was sponsored by representative Sergius Ogun, sought to ensure that only public officers who can show they can afford foreign education for their children without using public funds are allowed to do so.

Lawmakers appealed to Mr Ogun to step down the bill but he refused, and when it was put to vote, a majority voted against the bill.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.channelstv.com/2022/03/03/reps-reject-bill-seeking-to-bar-public-officers-children-from-studying-abroad/amp/ nlfpmod
Lalasticlala, Seun

These are the same people that send their children abroad to study and enjoy life. The same people who jet out of the country once they have a headache

See as he is fat-feeding on the the one Nigeria criminal enterprise that have unjustly skewed to suit the egocentric interests of these useless politicians. Have this fool ever legislate against Buhari, Tinubu, going to seek healthcare outside this nation?

When did he legislate for healthcare facilities in LUTH, FMCs and other tertiary institutions to be upgraded? Does he even seek healthcare in Nigeria? They kicked against the one barring their children schooling oversea but wants to stop prospective skilled young Nigerians to japa. Una dey ment.

Until the enabling environment is physically, educationally, financially and mentally, youhave no right to stop people from seeking greener pastures.

Supported. The redemption of our nation begins with each of us and the sacrifice we each make.



5 Years Before Going Abroad Doctors Bill: A Clinical Stitch In Time

Nigeria's House of Representatives in its tweet on 6 April, announced that a bill sponsored by Rep Ganiyu Abiodun Johnson to prevent Nigerian-trained medical or dental practitioners from being granted full licences until they have worked for a minimum of five years in the country has passed second reading at the Nigerian House of Representatives https://twitter.com/HouseNGR/status/1643996023885533184?s=20

My First Reaction

At last! It came late since I wrote to recommend that this law be passed for years now but it is still better it is coming this late than never. I support this bill be passed as law and the President must quickly assent to the law for immediate implementation and subsequent domestication by every state of the federation .

Cuba has such a law and it worked for all government-trained doctors as they require official persmission to relocate overseas after being trained by the Cuban government https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cuba-usa-migrants-healthcare-idUSKBN0TK58B20151201

The unregulated exit of Nigerian government-trained doctors here in our country has almost crashed the system yet there are several reports and complaints that they are being enslaved overseas.

https://punchng.com/nigerian-doctors-in-uk-lament-exploitation-slave-labour/


Will The Law Be Effective?

The way the law will be effective is to delay the process from when medical induction oath taking takes place to when you recieve provisional and full permanent medical license to practice as a medical doctor.

All travels by those set of doctors covered by the law will be required to get official permission from the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) for travel within that period and the list to be shared with the Legislature and Immigration service on a periodic basis.

The law will make defaulters who flout the 5-year moratorium liable to conviction if they leave Nigeria to permanently reside and transfer their tax-expense acquired skillset to a foreign country before 5 years.

Anyone still doubting if this law will work should ask any professional this rhethorical question : You do not want a criminal record as a professional or would you want to be prosecuted?

The ship has set sail and the rest of the loose ends will be sorted out even though I suggest that this law be accelerated.


What Are Nigerians Saying?

There are two courts in the land, the more powerful one is the court of public opinion in the scheme of sociological perspectives.

Those who ignore the power of public opinion later realised too late.

There are some erstwhile powerful trade unions that underestimated the power of public opinion and today not enjoying the public sympathy.

That is why I am staying on the fundamental and basic question of "Must the taxpayers lose on all sides?" I am not about 'whataboutism'.

Like this problem of young doctors leaving immediately after training which remained unaddressed until now, I believe that one day, the issue of paying huge subsidies on petrol and electricity to only a set of Nigerians while millions of other Nigerians without roads and electricity have no equivalent subsidy yet forced by the system to pickup the social cost and burden of the debt and fiscal capture of state resources for a privileged compatriots will get to this level of national bill too.

Everyone of those with elitist education seem to want to take advantage of the system and when you ask them a basic question on why should a tax payer train you and when you finish your training you immediately take your skill to another country, what I recieve are cocky answers telling me "whatabout" so so so and so in response.

To make it mandatory for young medical doctors to stay back at least 5 years after being trained with tax payers money is not too much to ask from you if you attend government universities where your education was heavily subsidized.

Right Family Values On Decline.

Parents who scatter their homes and raise children who grow up to run far away from home are on trial as well. It is not just the young professionals using the japa syndrome as smokescreen.

It is abnormal and dysfunctional for a young man and/or woman to finish school and immediately want to move several thousand kilometres away from his parents and deny those who trained him of his skill. It is against natural justice and these young professionals will lose.

In my opinion, https://www.nairaland.com/7646704/5-years-before-going-abroad

full article here https://saharareporters.com/2023/04/07/5-years-going-abroad-doctors-bill-clinical-stitch-time-sunkanmi-vaughan

He should also propose a bill stopping elected political office holders from traveling abroad for medical treatment.

Mindlog:
He should also propose a bill stopping elected political office holders from traveling abroad for medical treatment.

You mind the fella. Buhari, Aisha, Yusuf Buhari Mamman Daura, Ekweremadu, and all the Nigerian elites don't just care.

Racoon:
You mind the fella. Buhari, Aisha, Yusuf Buhari Mamman Daura, Ekweremadu, and all the Nigerian elites don't just care.

So after sponsoring my cousin at Our Lady of Lourdes School of Nursing Ihiala, this lawmaker think she will have no right to seek better professional opportunities outside Nigeria after graduation?🙄

Let them use the money they waste on foreign medical treatments to build more Nursing schools as there are thousands of Nigerian youths very eager to study Nursing and Nigeria can export their skills.

Kenya's then President in 2021, went to the UK and signed an agreement with the then PM, Boris Johnson to have UK officially recruit from Kenya , thousands of their unemployed nurses through the Kenya Government, who would get their cut on each Kenyan nurse recruited.

Stupid government

Are they really thinking? They should first pass a bill to stop themselves from accessing medical treatment abroad, to stop their children from education abroad. Once that is done, then we will know they mean business.

Set of confused agbero in the State House of Assembly

Fact check he is APC..They are not rational thinking beings.

Everything about APC as a party is evil. Can't Nigerian youths see that APC is an evil party with a mission to destroy Nigerian youths in the guise of trying to make Nigeria better?


These foolish APC political leaders and actors are not even thinking of passing laws or bills to stop elected office holders and other government officials from going abroad to seek for medical care which would make politicians invest more in Nigerian health sector and boost the sector and make it more lucrative for the medical professionals, thereby naturally discouraging Nigerian medical professionals from even thinking of migrating abroad for greener pastures. Instead they are thinking like witches and wizards that hate progress of their citizens and countrymen and women, na wa oh.




Just take a look at the thinking of an APC lawmaker, very useless set of people.



Nigeria have a population of over 200 million and youths are the majority.


Nigeria have one of the worst graduate unemployment rate in the world where graduates struggle to find job after spending years in higher institutions. These fools aren't bothered about this crazy youth unemployment pandemic, instead they are worried about youths migrating abroad for greener pastures.



Don't these foolish political office holders know that if not for Nigerians in Diaspora, Nigeria's economy would have collapsed like that of Bangladesh ? The foreign direct and indirect remittances from Nigerians in diaspora is one of the reasons the foolishness of Nigerian leaders haven't buried Nigeria completely.



Why can't these guys think smart? Why cant these guys think of a way to harness these hot demand of medical professionals in western countries and help Nigerians?


Why not start encouraging more Nigerian pupils to study science from Secondary school using career guidance and counselors so that Nigeria will have more salable professionals that can be exported abroad to boost our dead economy?


Encourage more secondary school pupils to study science, tell universities to increase admission quota for Medical, Nursing, Radiography, Pharmacy, etc departments. Upgrade these departments and faculties, hire more lecturers, build more Nursing schools and churn out more of Nursing, Medical, etc graduates than allowing Nigerian children to be wasting time and scarce money studying marketing, public admin, mass communication, botany, petrochemical engineering, political science, accounting, law, and other unproductive, outdated courses that add no real value to Nigeria's economy at the present.



Lets emulate wise countries like India, Philippines, Kenya, etc who have secretly made it a national project to become highest producers and exporters of medical and technology professionals which is helping their economies grow faster?



Must we become enemy of progress in this country?



These medical professionals migrating abroad to work are saviors to their suffering families in Nigeria, most of them are the only reason their family members in Nigeria haven't been wiped out by Buhari/APC's induced hunger and poverty, they are helping Nigeria's economy a lot, why stop them instead of harnessing the opportunity to help more Nigerians wasting away jobless in Nigeria after graduation? Na wa oh, seems only fools get into political leadership positions in Nigeria oh, kai



millions of Nigerian youths are idle, jobless, and wasting away after graduation, those that fortunately find a job are underpaid and can barely survive even as they are working because their monthly pay isn't even enough to transport them to and fro work, and then there is a huge opportunity abroad for medical professionals to work and earn good income and become useful to themselves, family members, friends and community.


Instead of these drunk, directionless, clueless APC lawmakers and officials to think of how to get more jobless Nigerian youth graduates to become salable medical and IT professionals that can be exported to earn FX for Nigeria and also reduce our mad youth unemployment rate, they are rather thinking of how to stop the ones migrating legally to work and earn good income from migrating abroad.


For a Nurse or Doctor, etc to secure a job in Nigeria's FMC or General Hospital or Teaching Hospital, he or she must know somebody in government or position of authority and sometimes they pay huge money to get these low paid government jobs yet these fools are still talking of shortage of medical professionals when they haven't even finished employing the available medical professionals in Nigeria, it is well with Nigeria under APC



Honestly any Nigerian youth supporting APC must be really insane or something.

Nigerian a DEN OF HYPOCRITES...
So long the law does not affect them, dey don't give a damn...


One day monkey go go Market, GEN Z dey grow like fertilizer una go hear am

Mindlog:


So after sponsoring my cousin at Our Lady of Lourdes School of Nursing Ihiala, this lawmaker think she will have no right to seek better professional opportunities outside Nigeria after graduation?🙄

Let them use the money they waste on foreign medical treatments to build more Nursing schools as there are thousands of Nigerian youths very eager to study Nursing and Nigeria can export their skills.

Kenya's then President in 2021, went to the UK and signed an agreement with the then PM, Boris Johnson to have UK officially recruit from Kenya , thousands of their unemployed nurses through the Kenya Government, who would get their cut on each Kenyan nurse recruited.

this is exactly what Peter Obi said, that his government would invest more in education so that we would produce so many doctors that those that wants to leave can leave and those that wants to stay back can equally do so without us experiencing any shortage. Most Nigerian politicians aren't fit to run a nursery school talkless of a country.

Forluv:
These are the same people that send their children abroad to study and enjoy life. The same people who jet out of the country once they have a headache

no mind the mumu them....like the bill can stop anyone from japa-ing..

Apc

humilitypays:
Everything about APC as a party is evil. Can't Nigerian youths see that APC is an evil party with a mission to destroy Nigerian youths in the guise of trying to make Nigeria better?


These foolish APC political leaders and actors are not even thinking of passing laws or bills to stop elected office holders and other government officials from going abroad to seek for medical care which would make politicians invest more in Nigerian health sector and boost the sector and make it more lucrative for the medical professionals, thereby naturally discouraging Nigerian medical professionals from even thinking of migrating abroad for greener pastures. Instead they are thinking like witches and wizards that hate progress of their citizens and countrymen and women, na wa oh.




Just take a look at the thinking of an APC lawmaker, very useless set of people.



Nigeria have a population of over 200 million and youths are the majority.


Nigeria have one of the worst graduate unemployment rate in the world where graduates struggle to find job after spending years in higher institutions. These fools aren't bothered about this crazy youth unemployment pandemic, instead they are worried about youths migrating abroad for greener pastures.



Don't these foolish political office holders know that if not for Nigerians in Diaspora, Nigeria's economy would have collapsed like that of Bangladesh ? The foreign direct and indirect remittances from Nigerians in diaspora is one of the reasons the foolishness of Nigerian leaders haven't buried Nigeria completely.



Why can't these guys think smart? Why cant these guys think of a way to harness these hot demand of medical professionals in western countries and help Nigerians?


Why not start encouraging more Nigerian pupils to study science from Secondary school using career guidance and counselors so that Nigeria will have more salable professionals that can be exported abroad to boost our dead economy?


Encourage more secondary school pupils to study science, tell universities to increase admission quota for Medical, Nursing, Radiography, Pharmacy, etc departments. Upgrade these departments and faculties, hire more lecturers, build more Nursing schools and churn out more of Nursing, Medical, etc graduates than allowing Nigerian children to be wasting time and scarce money studying marketing, public admin, mass communication, botany, petrochemical engineering, political science, accounting, law, and other unproductive, outdated courses that add no real value to Nigeria's economy at the present.



Lets emulate wise countries like India, Philippines, Kenya, etc who have secretly made it a national project to become highest producers and exporters of medical and technology professionals which is helping their economies grow faster?



Must we become enemy of progress in this country?



These medical professionals migrating abroad to work are saviors to their suffering families in Nigeria, most of them are the only reason their family members in Nigeria haven't been wiped out by Buhari/APC's induced hunger and poverty, they are helping Nigeria's economy a lot, why stop them instead of harnessing the opportunity to help more Nigerians wasting away jobless in Nigeria after graduation? Na wa oh, seems only fools get into political leadership positions in Nigeria oh, kai

Peter Obi said the same thing as you.

FG caused all these problems........Their children go to school abroad.......They go to seek healthcare outside this country.