₦airaland Forum

June 13, 2018
The Joint Health Sector Unions have appealed to the Federal Government to pay its members April and May, 2018 salaries in line with their agreement to suspend their strike.

Mr Achimugu Isaiah, the branch Chairman, Federal Medical Centre (FMC Keffi), Nasarawa State, made the call on Wednesday while fielding questions from the News Agency of Nigeria shortly after a congress meeting of the union in Keffi.


NAN recalls that JOHESU embarked on an indefinite nationwide industrial action on April 18 and resumed work on May 31.

Some of the demands made by the union included upward adjustment of salary scale, employment of additional health professionals, review of retirement age from 60 years to 65 years and implementation of court judgment.

JOHESU consists of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), Medical and Health Workers Union (MHWUN) and Senior Staff Association of University Teaching Hospitals, among others.

Isaiah said that payment of two months salaries to the members of the union who embarked on strike to press home their demands would cushion their economic plight.

He added it would also boost members’ morale toward effective healthcare service delivery.

The union leader queried the selective nature of paying few members against the majority.“The strike was declared by the national body and the local chapter here only obeyed the directive of the national secretariat.

“Actually, we only called members of the union to brief them on the outcome of our meeting with the management of the centre after the suspension of the JOHESU strike by the national body of the union.

“After the suspension of the strike, we have been meeting with our management on the need for payment of April and May salaries to our members but the management told us that those that were paid are those that worked during the strike.

“Such beneficiaries like the management staff, drivers and their personal assistants, among others, were paid based on directive from the federal government.

“They said that anything that was done was based on directive and they can only take our message on the payment of our April/May salaries to the federal government for action.

“It is in view of this that we are pleading with the federal government to consider our presentation, the plight of workers by paying us our April/May salaries in the interest of peace,” he said.

Besides, Isaiah urged the federal government to do the needful by implementing the demands of the union so as to put the issues that led to the strike to an end.

The chairman also urged the members of the union to remain calm, be law abiding and continue with their normal duties.

Reacting, Dr Luka Samuel, the Acting Medical Director of the centre, confirmed that those that were paid are workers that worked during the strike.

Samuel listed the management staff, drivers, personal assistants, and those on sick bed, among others, as beneficiaries of the April/ May salary.

The acting medical director restated the commitment of the centre to continue to key into good health policies and programmes that have direct bearing on the lives of the people for the overall development of the country.

Throwback:
You fit face Oghara youths that prevented his arrest in Nigeria, before he ran out of the country only to land in UK prison?

Throwback:
If Ibori is not prosecuted since his return to Nigeria, then I will know that EFCC and Buhari are not yet ready to defeat corruption

GavelSlam:

I mean various other blunders, faux pas and outright lies.

GavelSlam:


Just add "and various others".

Acidosis:
Sadly, we don't get to see them in jail.

GavelSlam:


Delta is in trouble.

GavelSlam:
Please focus on Uduaghan.

NFFGG:
lol, quite unfortunate, baba Buhari did rail line thru Daura, his home town that has no economic values

fero007:
Did chevron ever leave Warri? the know of shell, agip, schlumberger, pooc, npdc

Mynd44:
Warri used to be lively, fun, rich, wealthy and a place you tell tales of.

Night clubs, bars, entertainment, food and all sorts of live until Shell said bye.

Every sector of Warri and Delta at large felt Shell then and it was good. Shell did a lot for that city I hope this news is true and I hope it goes well this time

Metuh:
Why do APC take delight in lying and deceiving their ever gullible zombies

Nothing of such is happening in South East.

LRNZH:
A lot of fake pictures from different countries: Ethiopia, Haiti, Ghana etc

Nkemtreasure:
Remember This?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j6vVSZ7wiE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpjAVFa_F5g

Mynd44:
If only you knew what Warri was before Shell left………..

Those celebrating know why they are celebrating

LRNZH:
Of course the video and picture and from Kano is from the school feeding program. So no one is arguing that there is a program. But the quality if it is deplorable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dTRARm3v_c

LRNZH:
I've proved to you time and again that many of them are stolen pics from other countries. How else do you want to hear it again?
Please where are you from in Nigeria? Maybe I can speak your language to elucidate my point.

LRNZH:
With me, you're like a virgin. I will just toy with you.

LRNZH:
In your feeble mind now you can bully

LRNZH:
E dey pain you because we are exposing the truths.

Come and masturbate in this new thread where we are exposing more APC corruption and mismanagement.


https://www.nairaland.com/4553627/kogi-borrowed-billions-banks-despite

LRNZH:
Why will I run when you are the one posting fake pics from Haiti?
Only the guilty are afraid.

LRNZH:
The program is fraught with massive fraud as with all things APC programs.

See for yourself from 2:20 mins

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

buhariguy:
These new wailer Lrnzh does not know the difference between school feeding program and Kano Ramanda feeding program.

How the intellectually lazy idiotic pigs of biafra identify one location without uniform and call it fg school feeding program.

LRNZH:
What are you trying to say precisely? Who are the children and who my contemporaries?

I have other currently trending frontpage threads on Gbajabiamila and the incessant kidnapping all over Nigeria.

You people who see injustice and keep quiet will be judged accordingly.