₦airaland Forum

RIZLER:
omenka can you still remeber those days you claimed to be igbo?

lmao! he really did? Thank God you bursted him he would have kept claiming to be an 'objective Igbo man' with Anti-Igbo opinions to confuse minions.

Thieves and looters deceiving
Nigerians with the 'I am saint facade".
1) Madam do you source dollars to
pay Zahra's School fees or not while
the common man can't afford it? A
friend who is a student here in
Australia have been thrown out of his house as his parents in Nigeria can no longer afford his school fees I now have to accomodate him but you and other corrupt politicians close to APC government can still afford it at the expense of poor Nigerians. Yet your poor zombies will defend you.

2.) Madam do you also source dollars to buy your million dollar wrist watches, mary kay and foreign
perfumes? At what rate?
3.) Madam Aisha, If CBN can give you dollars for Zahra school fees, Mary kay, foreign wrist watches, glamorous dresses and other frivolities what stops them from giving you excess of what you actually need so you can sell
at 340 in the black market and make
quick cash?

4.) Zombies over to you. I need to
read your defensive lamentations and laugh at your poverty of intellect.

Thieves and looters deceiving Nigerians with the 'I am saint facade".
1) Madam do you source dollars to pay Zahra's School fees or not while the common man can't afford it? A friend who is a student here in Australia have been thrown out of his house as his parents in Nigeria can no longer afford his school fees I now have to accomodate him but you and other corrupt politicians close to APC government can still afford it at the expense of poor Nigerians. Yet your poor zombies will defend you.

2.) Madam do you also source dollars to buy your million dollar wrist watches, mary kay and foreign perfumes? At what rate?

3.) Madam Aisha, If CBN can give you dollars for Zahra school fees, Mary kay, foreign wrist watches, glamorous dresses and other frivolities what stops them from giving you excess of what you actually need so you can sell at 340 in the black market and make quick cash?

4.) Zombies over to you. I need to read your defensive lamentations and laugh at your poverty of intellect.

aresa:
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You don't have any international airport, it's international only by mouth and on paper, but in reality, it's not.

The woman missed a great opportunity to deliver one of the best airport in Nigeria, but did not because of the same National corruption disease and incompetence.

We've seen horrible pictures that basically confirmed the lousy state of things at this airport especially when it rains, we saw people walking in flood water in the rain to and from the plan as stated in this report.

Obviously, this report has nothing to do with tribalism and it shouldn't be. Stating the poor state of things in your backyard should be a source of concern when it comes to our safety and the safety of the people you love.

You have major airlines refusing to fly to enugu because of the lousy job the woman did and you are sitting here shouting tribalism and blaming other people instead of the person responsible for the mess that's threatening your safety and economic security.

Tribalism is very dangerous because it not only denies you your rightful entitlement,but also endangers you and your people and instead of seeking accountability, you blame other people and shielded and protect the culprit because of tribalism.

Other people are not responsible for the lack of 2nd NB, your tribal games, affiliations and uncaring and incompetent leaders. This bridge should have been built collectively by your own states a long time a ago, but because of their incompetence and uncaring behavior, they point fingers at every turn and make sure to tell you that other tribes are responsible for what's essentially their responsibility.

You should be happy if in fact the project was suspended or totally scraped as it stands contractually today because it was designed to swindle and scam you for 30 years.

To start with and as it stands, the FG is not building or funding that bridge, JB is building and funding the over inflated bridge because GEJ sold the deal to JB to build and fund and in return, you pay tolls to JB for 30 years.

Have you ever asked yourself why you should pay tolls to JB for 30 years just to use that bridge while people in other parts of the country are using FG bridges and infrastructures for free?

Have you ever asked yourself why GEJ didn't just get direct FG funding for the bridge instead of selling it to JB to toll you and make you and your people pay for that bridge out of your own pocket?

Why must you pay for that bridge fir 30 years and at the end of that 30 years, it's still not going to be yours locally, it's going to be the property of the FG of Nigeria, meaning it belongs to the whole country when in fact, the folks in SE paid for it out of their own pocket.


Why not just build your own bridge with your own money, toll your own bridge and use the money to fund other projects in your communities.

Lagos state built and tolled the Lekki bridge and whatever they make off the bridge funds other projects, but as it stands, you are helping the FG pay for a bridge that's never going to be yours while other people in Nigeria enjoy FG roads and bridges free of charge.


Fact is, you let tribalism mess you up, you let other people take advantage of you because you are always preoccupied with tribalism, you distract yourself with tribalism, you box yourself in a corner with tribalism and so on.

You are your own enemy and not other tribes. You basically rip what you sow either with your mentality, outlook, your association or the kind of people you call leaders and ultimately you yourself and your shallow and tribal thinking..


You didn't even address the deficiencies stated in the report to start with....well, that's a different story..[/s]

Yoruba logic 101- "use your state allocation to build a federal airport while we yorubas must use eastern resources to build and maintain our airports in yorubaland. "

lmao Why couldnt you use your state allocation to build and maintain airport in yorubaland? These people funny aswear.

akinsbaba2015:
Your supposed education is a waste. Strangers/enemies will tell you your relatives are corrupt and you won't ask for concrete and verifiable proofs to back up their claims. Let them call a press conference and lay everything bare so the public can be sufficiently guided. Shameless and unfounded propaganda has never helped the cause of the PDP against the APC before/after the polls.

Sir zombie, Garba shehu didn't deny getting Dollar from CBN. He even confirmed he got some dollars to send to his daughters abroad. The question is-Did he get 8,000 USD or 800,000 USD?

Now Mr Zombie, If he can get 8,000 at CBN rate what stops him from getting 800,000 USD? That's the question zombies will refuse to ask.

Anyway you guys can keep fooling yourselves over there defending your criminals while you wallow in poverty. I get paid here in Aussie dollars and I can never be poor like y'all zombies. Your cross, your pain.

mayorrolex:
Nigerians are already used to APC system of denying everything..liar Mohammed will up and say that buhari has never touched dollars before..

I will wait for liar mohammed to deny it, once he does, I will know it's true.

It is well known that CBN sells dollars to big men in Buhari's government at the CBN price of 185 and it is also well known that these big men go to black market to sell it at N380 . The problem is who are these Big men. Garba Shehu are you one of them or not? My brother is a bank manager in a New generation bank so i'm not rabble- rousing.

PDP should start doing undercover jobs and tailing and bursting the APC 'saints' with good evidence. They know how corruption is perpetrated and should use their knowledge to help uncover the APC 'saints'. It will help sanitize the polity keep the 'saints' on their toes.


#BuhariAndCorruption.

YourMrBoo:
With this revelation am really scared what the future holds in 2019, buhari may no concede defeat even if he looses.
But I advise him. Gej was Democratic, be like Gej

That is exactly what i pray for. Let Buhari refuse to conceed and sit tight when he loses and let see if Gbabo's case won't be a child's play. Cases are already piling for him at the hague.
Why he is always bent on enjoying post-election violence, we will find out in 2019.

How about the briefcasedc ontaining PTF dollars you gave to go uncheck in the 80s? Mr integrity that now quadrupled GEJ's budget's for food in Aso rock and Budget more for Information propaganda than for the nation's health. Fool yourself and your zombies alone.

knightsTempler:
It means zilch to him, he has since sold his birthright to the Fulani's.

lmao Omenka na true?

Opharhe:
I've observed that you're quick to react to issues concerning PDP, GEJ & PEJ, Ipod abi na Ipad sef etc. But I've never seen you react to the perennial crisis in your area(learnt you're from Benue) between local farmers and Herdsmen and the silence of the FG since Buhari's Presidency. I don't want to believe the wasted lives of the people of Agatu and elsewhere is of no concern to you. Thanks.

The easiest way have omenka run away from you is to remind him of what the fulanis are doing to his people in Benue.

ShinnBet:
Can you deny that young Christian girls are being detained against their will in emir palaes in the north and forced to convert to Islam?


Your perverted religion encourages you Muslims to abduct Christian girls and this latest crime carried out by the Kano Hisbah is to compensate for losing Ese.


May God punish all of you Muslim swines

I was just thinking about the bolded before you said it. Could this sudden onslaught on 'indecent christian girls' in kano be linked to the anti-muslim uproar the Ese case generated? Are the Muslim ummah trying to get even with christians for how they were looked in the face and told the truth about their stone age religion that allow stealing and conquering of Christian girls?

carinmom:
This Op is a joker, were you there when the raid took place? Why did you jump into conclusion on the cultural and religious identity of the culprits?

Even if all of them are christians as you want everyone to believe, then the hisbah did nothing wrong in their arrest. Unless if you want to tell us that Christianity is a religion for all sorts of immorality and as such they should be left alone because they are christians.

And the last time i checked Sabongarin Kano is part and parcel of Kano metropolis well within the jurisdiction of the hisbah.

So they should end up in your Emirs palace as sex slaves because they are already condemned by your sharia police even before investigation. Why not send them to a competent secular and let's them face secular law. As Christians sharia law is already prejuduced against them.

CAN and every Human right NGO should keep close tabs on those girls before they all end up with stinky hijabs in Emirs palaces.

ShinnBet:
The Kano Hisbah sharia police declared yesterday the arrest of 31 young Christian girls mostly of southern extraction in a raid of a "br0thel" in the Sabon Gari part of town.


Firstly, Sabon Garri is home to mainly Christians and southerners and for the Sharia police to carry out an illegal raid on Christian properties and arrest Christians goes against the implementation of sharia law which states categorically that sharia will only be enforced among muslims.

Secondly, the hisbah raid in Sabon Garri has shown that the Kano State govt and likewise other sharia states in the north with similar hisbah brigades are operating effectively a state police which runs contrary to the constitution which forbids states from having their own police.

Thirdly, the young girls illegally abducted by the Kano sharia police will be arraigned before a sharia judge as the hisbah can not arraign cases in front of a conventional court of law. So in retrospect Christians and non muslims are now being subject to Islamic jurisprudence.

Fourthly, we can never take the same hisbah sharia police on their words as they played a significant role in Ese Osuru's continued detention at the Emir's palace.

For all we know these may be young Christian girls not dressed in appropriate Islamic garb which then makes them declared as prost1tutes by the lice ridden hisbah police.

This is not a case of pr0stitution but one of clear abduction by the Kano state hisbah brigade.

Women Human right organization should better move fast before these girls end up on Emir sanusi rapefest palace forever. Where are Dr okei-odumakin and Oby ezeks the hypocrite when you need them most?

lalasticlala you see say Buhari the traveller go soon travel and never come back again like monkey wey go market where dem dey sell bushmeat.

Nice advice if you ask me. Buhari should save his money and concentrate on the his upcoming case at the hague.

We know he is above Nigerian law but he is a rat compared to International laws even bigger tyrants like Al-Bashir his friend run and hide at the sight of Interpol when they go for international meetings.

At the Aljazeera interview Buhari confirmed that he ordered the killing of easterners in Aba, he will tell the world why he ordered the killing of unarmed prostesters.

Easterners should start buying spy cameras and mounting them everywhere the murderous sunni soldiers are positioned in the East.
It is either he goes to gaol or runs to saudi for exile like Idi amin did when the warrant is issued. For every time the uniformed zombies squeeze their trigger, Buhari moves closer to jail.

Sorry my Hausa/fulani friends, we voted and loved Shagari and Yar'adua... but this sectionalist and hateful tyrant called Buhari, who always bay for blood? No! HE WILL PAY FOR HIS CRIMES IN LIFE OR DEATH. THAT'S SACROSANCT!

Fulanis won't stop until you give them the ghanian treatment.

The likes of fulanimafia, passingshot and co will run 440 from this thread.

Pangea:
It was brain work of Tinubu that brought Buhari to power
Unfortunately he turned against him immediately he was sworn in.
He allowed his tribal sentiments to cloud his judgement and he appointed idiots into ministerial posts.
Now we are suffering it.
His dogs have started turning against him
Now he is looking for smart help again from Tinubu.
If I'm Tinubu
I will just ignore the malam!

Sorry but tinubu can't ignorw buhari. If the tyrant want tinubu to play ball, he will play ball or sent DSS or EFCC against him. Tinubu have sold his birthright and the entire yorubaman.
It is Support Buhari unconditionally or have the EFCC and DSS dogs at bourdillon. Which would you choose if you were Tinubu? We already know answer.
No yorubaman wants to die 10 times in DSS jail. lol

What is he saying that Ndigbo should do to get to the center because I didn't understand him at all?
Peter Obi never mentioned building bridges like some APCist are shouting here.

If the bridges Ndigbo built by voting Shagari, Yar adua, Obj is not enough for you ApCists to reciprocate. Then Ndigbo can't help you. Ndigbo will not kill themselves to make you happy.
Rather you will have die off as the country crumbles for Ndigbo to live since you can never be satisfied. #Hardtruths

dunkem21:
Lalasticlala, it is not vanguard o ..

And it's not IgberenewsTV.

Though newsrecue is owned by one yahya Shiite guy who lied against Kanu being caught with prostitute and cocaine. I know that ISIS sees Buhari as doing their bidding. So the second postulation makes a lot of sense.

Like we already know;

Buhari is Boko
Boko has link with ISIS
ISIS is Sunni
Buhari and Boko are Sunni
Forget the smokescreen. Boko and Buhari are One.

Brigadier7:
Nobody will comment on this now o! A Soldier was injured by a group of miscreants, and everybody seems to be quiet! If the Drill and descend on those militants now,all these Civil society I.diottts will be gingering Justice and will blike "No to brutality".yeye Country

Go siddon for corner. Nigerian soldier are just trained bullies to unarmed people. When those unarmed people also pick up guns, soldiers begin to respect them.

Buhari go smell rod for ICC jail. See him agama head.

ernecy:
Ghen ghen!!!! Let me take front seat....food don done

Make una come chop o

Op..what u did is not good o... I will report u to NA

We done move am go politics section.

www.nairaland.com/3011685/zaria-massacre-uk-based-muslim-commission#44119521

Wahala dey oh!
This buhari will soon start sweating as he did at the Aljazeera interview.
IPOB in 88 countries wants him jailed, IMN wants him jailed, Ogonis wants him jailed. Even Aljazeera has the evidence of some of his crimes.

All sane people wants him jailed. Hope he won't run to Saudi like Idi Amin when heat gets too much.

lalasticlala come see buhari dey dance awilo to the Hague.

The Islamic Human Rights
Commission (IHRC), a United
Kingdom-based Muslim advocacy
organisation, has dragged President
Muhammadu Buhari, the Kaduna
State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, the
chief of army staff, Tukur Buratai, to
the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the December 12 to 14, 2015 massacre of members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN).

The organisation also asked the ICC to investigate the emir of Kano,
Muhammadu Sanusi II, and the emir of Zaria, Shehu Idris, for human rights violation and crimes against humanity
over the alleged killing of at least 1,000 followers of the Shi’ite group led by Ibrahim El-Zakzaky.

Other army officers and persons the
IHRC asked the ICC to probe for their roles in the massacre are:
spokesperson of the Nigerian Army,
Sani Usman, General Officer
Commanding (GOC) of the Nigerian
Army, Kaduna, Adeniyi Oyebade, the
Commander Nigerian Depot, Chief of Defence Staff, Abayomi Olonisakin, Director Military Intelligence, Chief of
Defence intelligence – AVM Riku
Morgan, AK Ibrahim – Commander 1 Division Garrison, Nigerian Army,
Kaduna and Col. F.M Babayo.
The rest are Capt Ben, Adjutant Depot, Nigerian Army; Adeniyi Oyebade,

General Officer Commanding, 1
Division Garrison Kaduna; Umar
Labdo; Sambo Rigachukun; Bala Lau; Yahaya Jingir and; Kabir Gombe.

In a detailed report, the IHRC argued that attacks of the army on members of IMN between December 12 and 14
in Zaria qualify as crime against
humanity and therefore called on the ICC to initiate an investigation into the incident.

According to the IHRC, “ICC
prosecutor should open a preliminary examination into the incidents that
occurred between the 12th and 14th
December 2015 in Zaria, Kaduna
State”.

It also demanded that the
“prosecutor expand(s) its monitoring
activities on Nigeria and the army’s
involvement in attacks against the IMN that occurred in the period between
2014 and 2015.”
Furthermore, the IHRC asked “the ICC Prosecutor to issue a preventive
statement saying that he is monitoring the Nigerian crisis and is aware of the commission of crimes and warn the perpetrators about their criminal
liability.”

According to the IHRC, the Zaria
killings meet the two criteria of
admissibility and gravity, which are
prerequisite before the ICC
prosecutor could undertake an
investigation of an alleged crime
against humanity.
The commission said there were no
indications from the Federal
Government that it was willing to
investigate the killings. It also argued
that the Nigerian government has a
history of shielding persons
implicated for serious crimes from
“criminal responsibility for the crimes alleged”.

It stated that Mr. El-Rufai has
compromised the impartiality and
independence of the commission of
inquiry his government set up to
investigate the massacre by
demolishing the properties of the
Shi’ite group days after the incident
and by listing a litany of grievances
against the group in a speech he
made.
“At the present time, the available
information shows some
inadequacies or reluctance on the
part of the Nigerian authorities to
generally address the violence that
occurred on 12-13 December 2015,”
the report stated.
“The Judicial Commission of Inquiry
set up by the Kaduna State governor
Malam Nasir el-Rufai is insufficiently
independent and impartial to be able to hold those responsible to account, nor is there any reasonable prospect of any prosecutions. In his speech,
the governor listed a range of
grievances against the IMN, which is
indicative of bias against the IMN from the start.

“He further proceeded to demolish
IMN properties before setting up the
commission of the inquiry.
“Both IMN and Amnesty International have expressed concerns that the
Judicial Commission of Inquiry is not set up to sufficiently perform a
credible inquiry.”
IHRC also claimed that the army used “illegitimate violence and a high degree of brutality” in its alleged unprovoked and premeditated attacks
on followers of Mr. El-Zalzaky.

“The attacks were attended by
illegitimate violence and a high degree of brutality, insofar as the army opened fire on unarmed civilians; allowed criminals to crudely cut off body parts; proceeded to the
excavation of mass graves without
permission from the families of the
victims and carried out extrajudicial
crimes and detained civilians
unlawfully,” the report stated.
Horrific details of massacre.

The report contains horrific details of the massacre and the destruction of properties owned by the IMN between December 12 and 14.
According to IHRC, which described
the attacks on the Shi’ite group as
unprovoked and premeditated, the
attack was centred on four properties: the Hussainiyyah and religious centre
located at No.1A, Sokoto Road; the
home of the IMN leader Mr. Zakzaky in the Gyellesu neighbourhood of Zaria;
the group’s burial ground of Darur-
Rahma, in Dembo village, on the
outskirts of Zaria; and the home and
burial place of Hajiya Saliha
Muhammad, Sayyid Zakzaky’s late
mother in the Jushi neighbourhood of Zaria.
On the attack on the Hussainiyyah, the report stated that eyewitnesses and video evidence show how soldiers shot at “small children” and people “without provocation”.
It also said those who ran to the
religious centre for refuge were not
spared.
“The members of the IMN, who were unarmed, took cover inside the Hussainiyyah. The soldiers cordoned off the Hussainiyyah preventing the injured inside the centre from coming
out to seek medical help.
“As a result, many of those with
serious gunshot wounds died. The
army later killed the majority of those who had sought refuge in the
Hussainiyyah, including the injured,
women and children when it invaded and destroyed the complex,” said the
report.

The report stated that about the same time that the killings at the
Hussainiyyah was taking place,
another contingent of soldiers was
attacking the residence of Mr. El-
Zakzaky.
“Another contingent of the Nigerian
Army, in about nine trucks carrying
heavy arms and ammunition,
cordoned off Gyellesu neighbourhood where the leader of IMN, Sayyid
Ibrahim Zakzaky resides, some five
kilometres away from the
Hussainiyyah.
“They started killing unarmed civilians indiscriminately through the day and throughout the course of the night.
Whenever they shot someone and
others rushed to pick him/her up, the soldiers would then shoot and kill them as well.
“That situation lasted for hours with
another reinforcement of soldiers
arriving in about as many trucks and
Armoured Personnel Carriers. They
engaged in continued bloodshed,
breaking the human shield made by
unarmed members of the IMN with
ease, forcing their way through a pile of human corpses to get into Sheikh Zakzaky’s residence. “They virtually killed their way through.
Witnesses have told of how the 500-
metre stretch of road leading to the
house was filled with corpses. Once at the house, the soldiers used
explosives to bring down a section of the house and ignited a fire,” it said. It claimed further that more than 1,000 people were killed in both attacks, and despite that soldiers proceeded to destroy buildings and grave linked to the IMN.

“Following the attacks against the
Hussainiyyah and the residence of
Sheikh Zakzaky, the army proceeded
to destroy buildings and graves linked to the IMN. The Hussainiyyah at GRA area was completely destroyed.
“The Fudiyya Islamic Centre at Dan
Magaji and the family home of Sheikh Zakzaky, where his mother’s tomb is located in Zaria suffered a similar fate.
“Graves belonging to former
members of the IMN at the Darur
Rahma cemetery situated 10 miles
outside of Zaria were demolished,”
the report concluded.



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Sissy3, dominique, Seun and supermods.

NMA AND ABSURDITIES IN THE HEALTH SECTOR.
NMA has stated that she is a law abiding Association but it is crystal clear that all her actions are anti-Professional autonomy and the Rule of law. A situation where she gives directives to her members to undermine the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Government Established Scheme of Service, Extant Laws, Courts Rulings, and Judgments has a lot to say. Where NMA makes prescription for the creation of posts and responsibilities that are not backed by any Scheme of Services is ultra verse.
The Public Service Rule (PSR) 020205 “To be eligible for appointment into the Federal Public Service every applicant must 020205 (e) posses requisite qualification as provides from the “Scheme of Service”. No Nigeria Scheme of Service gave Allopathic Doctors the job description they have ascribed to themselves such as being the Director of Pharmaceutical Services, Director of Nursing Services, Director of Physiotherapeutic Services, Director of Radiographical Services, Director of Medical Laboratory Services etc.
NMA having told her members not to use Medical Laboratory results generated by qualified, registered and licensed Medical Laboratory Scientist except, they are signed by the Allopathic Doctors is an absurdity. The International Best Practice is when the Medical Laboratory Scientist have finished conducting test, the results generated is released to the Requesting Physician that is the doctor who made the original request for attention.
This upholds confidentiality of the test results. If the Requesting Physician feels that he needs an extra opinion to enable him manage the patient, it is his duty to invite his colleague the Pathologist for advice on other forms of patient care and management if need be. NMA should stop trying to meddle into the job function of Medical Laboratory Scientist which is not their area of licensure.

NMA AND STRIKE ACTION
NMA in many cases have called her members out on strike action to agitate for issues that are not backed by law. Currently in some hospitals there have been strike actions by NMA members. The reason is that Government should allow them to skip some grade levels that are not provided for in their scheme of Service, even when there are no enabling circulars backing such demands.
It should be highly stressed that NMA is not a Trade Union. And it is settled in the Nigerian Law, that if you are not a Trade Union, you cannot proceed on strike action. NMA have always misinformed the public that her strike actions are as a result of Public Interest, while in actual sense, it is an act born out of an illegal selfish desire to enrich her, outside the provision of the law. This is detrimental to the Nigerian Populace. NMA is not a recognized Trade Union, so she cannot under the guise of illegality benefit from the rights and privileges of a Trade Union.
NMA AND NIC JUDGMENT
It must be stated in clear terms that the “Press Release” by NMA Executives and her members are the averments they have canvassed in different Courts of competent jurisdiction in Nigeria and have lost in the matter. In three (3) rulings and three (3) distinct judgments from the National Industrial Court of Nigeria, the courts have ruled against those averments canvassed by NMA and her members. The Courts have past judgments that the law setting up Medical Laboratory Science Practice and Medicine are not in conflict, the job description, training and responsibilities are not the same. It is settle in law that you cannot reprobate and approbate at the same time. Moreover you cannot resort to self help on a matter already decided by a Court of competent jurisdiction. The action of NMA is subjudice for her to be calling Government to implement Alhaji Ahmed Yayale report which is before a Court of competent jurisdiction. It is worrisome that the NMA can have the temerity and audacity to cast aspersion on the judgments of National Industrial Court, on pages of newspaper in favour of Medical Laboratory Scientist in Nigeria. It will be a sense of exaggerated well being for NMA to think that she can intimidate and ambush the Court of Law by her contemptuous actions. In the words of the great Lord Denning the Master of the Rolls “YOU CANNOT BUILD SOMETHING ON NOTING AND EXPECT IT TO STAND” “NMA CANNOT BUILD HER HOUSE ON ILLEGALITY AND EXPECT IT TO STAND”. The rule of law provides that if you are not satisfied you take an appeal. NMA rather than putting on the “Antithesis of Civility” should make amends, for when “MERE MORTALS” try to desecrate the Temple of Justice and Truth, they are just digging their Waterloo, for the Temple of Justice and Truth are the abodes of “HIGHER MORTALS”.

RECOMMENDATIONS/SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS IN THE NIGERIAN HEALTH SECTOR
Government should be bold to restructure the Health Sector where rule of law is not subverted by the whims and caprices of a collective few.
Government in line with Public Service Rule 160201 which states “statutory Board/Council shall set operational and administrative polices in accordance with government policy directive and supervises the implementation of such polices.” Government should be firm to make all her employees specially NMA members to obey the rule of law, Public Service Rule, extant circulars and approved Scheme of Service.
NMA should be called to order because of her conspiracy against Government policy directives and Court judgments in favour of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria.
Government should entrench Medical Humanism and Medical Pluralism in the System.
In order to meet Universal Health Coverage, Government should promote and advance other established Therapeutic Medical Systems, where no one Therapeutic Medical System has monopoly. Government can achieve this by creating an enabling environment for the practice of evidence based Traditional Medicine, Ethnomedicine, Functional Medicine, Holistic Medicine, Alternative Medicine, Quantum Medicine, and integrative Medicine etc.
Let Medical Variety spice up the System and let the Patient be the King to Choose the System he wants like what you have in Countries with well established integrative system like in the USA, UK, FRANCE,CHINA,SRI LANKA,INDIA ETC.
Government should revert to the System where our Hospital Chief Executives are experts in Hospital Administration and Management, for this will bring harmony in the Health sector. Medical Personnel should face their area of Medial expertise.
CONCLUSION
To all Patients, this is the time to be strong for you are the king; very other Healthcare Professional, is a Health care Assistant to you, including the Allopathic Doctors. You must be firm, for the agitation of NMA is not in your best interest rather; they are agitations, founded on selfish undertone and ego trip. You must give your voice for the restructuring of the Health Sector based on the Rule of law.
Thanks:
DR. BENJAMIN CHUKWUNONSO AJUFO
AMLSCN (CHEM PATH) MPC (INDIA) MD (HOL MED) RMP (INDIA).


www.medicalworldnigeria.com/2016/03/nigerian-medical-association-nma-and-her-propanganda-of-misinformation-by-dr-benjamin-ajufo/

In what is a response to the communique released by the NMA on the Dichotomy Between Doctors and Other Health Workers, a don of the Association of Medical Laboratory Scientist of Nigeria, AMLSN, Dr Benjamin Ajufo wrote this report and wants the world to know the ‘truth’. Read his article:

In a Press Release by the Nigerian Medical Association dated Wednesday 9th March, 2016 captioned “IMPENDING DISASTER AND COLLAPSE OF GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS AND THE PUBLIC HEALTH SECTOR IN NIGERIA: A CALL FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION AGAINST EXISTING AND EMERGING ABSURDITIES ” (http://doctorsquarters.com/nma-spurs-for-war-with-other-allied-health-workers/) signed by Dr. Kayode Obembe and Dr. Adewunmi Alayakin on behalf of NMA as President and Secretary.NMA had raised a lot of pertinent issues in the Nigerian Health Sector. In said Press Release NMA was fighting tooth and nail to get the public on her side. She was hiding under the guise of altruism that her action is based on the need to protect the interest of the public and the patient. But in digging deeper you will see that NMA is encapsulated with the fabric of illegality to usurp the statutory functions of the other Health Care Professionals.

She epitomizes this by turning herself into a fifth columnist that is not amenable to obeying the laws of the land. She sits as “Eze Onye-agwanam” -“The King Above The Law” , to undermine the rule of law, Government established extant circulars, criteria of appointment as stipulated in the Public Service Rule, Government approved Scheme Of Service, different Court pronouncement/rulings and judgments, and above all the code of conduct as exemplified in the Nigerian 1999 Constitution (as amended). Why the entire hullabaloo by NMA? Why all the misinformation?
In the writings here-under we shall try our best possible to unfold the issues at stake in the Nigeria Health Sector for the public to be the judge as she has taken the problems in the Health Sector to the Court of Public Opinion.

NMA AND FLAGRANT DISREGARD OF CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS AND RULE OF LAW.
The Civil Service of the Federation is a creation of the Nigerian Constitution as Stated in section 169 of 1999 Constitution (as amended). Section 318 of the same Constitution defines the Civil Service of the Federation as thus-“means service of the Federation in a civil capacity as staff of the office of the President, Vice-President, a Ministry or department of the Government of the Federation assigned with the responsibility for any business of the Government of the Federation. Underline the words CIVIL CAPACITY and ASSIGNED with the responsibility for any business of the Government of the Federation for us to really appreciate the role of the Civil Service of the Federation. It is the Government through her Ministry, Department or Agencies that assigns responsibilities. While the creation of Posts and Responsibilities is also the statutory function of the Office of the Head of Service of the federation.
The Head of Service is also the Chairman National Council on establishment. Section 171 (1) B saddles some responsibilities on the Head of the Civil Service of the federation. Government approved Scheme of Service is a policy document from the Office of the Head of Service/National Council on Establishment to be used as one of the criteria for appointment into the Public Service of the federation.
The Government approved Scheme of Service for Medical laboratory Scientist in sections, 2.9,2.9.1, 2.9.2, saddles the responsibilities of taking charge of general administration of the Medical laboratory Services Department, budgeting and ordering laboratory equipment and reagent, advising on the formulation, execution and review of Medical Laboratory Policies on the Director of Medical Laboratory Services who is a Medical Laboratory Scientist. But in many hospitals today the Scheme of Service is not implemented.
NMA’s prescription is that illegal posts and responsibilities are created where a Director of Medical Laboratory Services is made to be under another Head of Department who is a Doctor this is alien to the Scheme of Service, a blatant absurdity.
The Public Service Rule (PSR) 020506 states “POSTING OF OFFICERS WITHIN THE MINISTRY TO POST OUTSIDE THEIR PROFESSIONAL CADRE SHOULD BE PROHIBITED” The Medical Laboratory Science Council Act 11 2003 states in section 18(2) “SUBJECT TO THE PROVISION IN THIS ACT, NO PERSON NOT BEING A FULLY REGISTERED MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENTIST UNDER THIS ACT SHALL BE ENTITLED TO HOLD ANY APPOINTMENT IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE OF THE FEDERATION OR STATE OR ANY PUBLIC OR PRIVATE ESTABLISHMENT BODY OR INSTITUTION, IF THE HOLDING OF SUCH APPOINTMENT INVOLVES THE PERFORMANCE BY HER IN NIGERIA OR ANY ACT PERTAINING TO THE PROFESSION OF MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE FOR GAIN”. The law is lucid that Allopathic Doctors cannot put themselves forward as Medical Laboratory Scientists, just as Medical Laboratory Scientists cannot put themselves forward as Allopathic Doctors.
Section 22(2) of MLSCN Act 11 2003 states “A person who is not a member of the profession shall not practice the profession or, in expectation of reward, take or use any name, title, addition or description implying that he is in practice as a member of the profession”……….a situation where Allopaths wants to put themselves as Medical Laboratory Scientists is against the law.

NMA AND MEGALOMANIA
NMA has always used derogatory terms to address other Health Care Professionals and she has always tried to put on the misleading posture that the terms Medicine, Medical and being medically qualified is an exclusive preserve of Practitioners of Allopathic Medicine.
The word “MEDICINE” was in used before the advent of the Medical Certification MBBS or MBCH. In fact the word “MEDICINE” was in use before the birth of Hippocrates who is wrongly said to be the father of “ORTHODOX MEDICINE”. Hippocrates never practiced ORTHODOX MEDICINE even though he was a Physician. The word “MEDICINE” is defined as the Act, Art and the Science of Healing. It is worthy to note that Allopathic Medicine is one of the newest comers in the “Terrain of Medicine”. There is Traditional Medicine and the Comparative study of Traditional Medicine is known as Ethnomedicine. You have Diagnostic Medicine, Alternative Medicine, Botanical Medicine/Herbal Medicine/Phytomedicine. There is Functional Medicine, Holistic Medicine, Integrative Medicine, and Quantum Medicine and finally Allopathic Medicine .
All these are established Therapeutic Medical Systems. The “Curative Regimen” produced by the Pharmacist is also called “Medicine”, yet Allopaths only see themselves as “Purveyors of Medicine” the word “Medical” is an adjective which means related to the Act, Art And Science Of Healing, yet NMA says that Pharmacy, Nursing, Optometry, Radiography, Dental Technology, Dietetics and Nutrition, Medical Rehabilitation/Physiotherapy and Medical Laboratory Science etc. are not part of the Act, Art and Science of Healing (Medically Oriented Disciplines). It is of value to state that the Medical and Dental Practitioner Act CAP M8 2004 that regulates the practice of Allopathic Medicine in Nigerian is not in agreement with NMA’s postulates. The Act is in agreement that there are other Therapeutic and established Medical systems outside Allopathic Medicine. In section 17 subsection 6 of Medical and Dental Practitioner Act CAP M8 2004 we are told “where any person is acknowledge by the members generally of the community to which he belongs as having been trained in the System of Therapeutic Medicine Traditionally used in that community, nothing in paragraph (a) of subsection 1 or paragraph (a) of subsection 2 shall be construed as making it an offence for that person to practice or to hold himself out to practice that system”.
Allopaths should stop misinforming the general public that they are the only people who practice “Medicine and are Medically Qualified”. The law provides that trained, licensed and registered Traditional Medicine Practitioners are also “medically qualified” to practices their “Medical System”. In line with Delta State Traditional Medicine Board Edict 1997 in section 2 it goes thus: “TRADITIONAL MEDICINE INCLUDES PRESCRIPTION, TREATMENT, CONCOCTION OR, AND DRUGS INDIGENOUS TO NIGERIA TRADITIONAL SOCIETY INTENDED FOR CURING OR PREVENTING DISEASE OR ANY OTHER FORMS OF ILL HEALTH”
It went further to state on Traditional Medicine Practitioner (this) “means a provider or purveyor of Traditional Medicine and this includes Herbalist, Bonesetters, Traditional Birth Attendant, Traditional Midwifes, Healers of Psychological and Allied illness, Traditional Surgeons, herbal dealers and every other persons whose beneficial practice falls within traditional practice.” It is crystal clear from the above that even Traditional Medicine Practitioners are Medical Practitioners, medically qualified to practice the medical system they have been trained, licensed and registered by the laws of Nigeria to practice.
A Medical Practice is any practice related to the act, art and science of healing provided that the practitioner is trained, registered and licensed by the laws establishing that practice for him/her to practice that profession. That is the fulcrum of being medically qualified, being fit to practice as stated by law. It is in that vein that Nursing, Pharmacy, Radiography, Physiotherapy, Optometry, Medical Laboratory Science etc. are all Medical Practices in the Medical Field regulated by Autonomous And Independent Regulatory Bodies established by acts of Parliament (Law) and the practitioners are full-fledged Medically Qualified Professionals.

NMA AND USURPATION OF STATUTORY FUNCTIONS OF OTHER PROFESSIONAL GROUP
In the said Press release, NMA had stated that Pathology and Medical Laboratory Science Profession are related but the description, training and responsibilities differ. Even with the above statement, she had stated that doctors and dentists are hereby cautioned against using pathology service result not reviewed, interpreted and reported by Pathologist thus guaranteeing, reliability, and safety and assuring responsibility for outcome of use. Arising from the foregoing, one is forced to ask is there any Scheme of Service in Nigeria that give the Allopathic Doctors such a job schedule? A situation where an Allopathic Doctor, signs out results he did not do is a scientific/professional fraud, a scientific plagiarism. It is already settled in the UK that you cannot sign out a result you did not do. In line with the Scheme of Service for Medical Laboratory Scientist, it is the duty of the Assistant Chief Medical Laboratory Scientist to supervise the subordinate staff. It is the duty of the Assistant Director and the Director, to make sure that Medical Laboratory results meet agreeable standards in line with the Standard Operating Procedure. They are to promote accuracy, reliability of results through the use of quality control and review of Laboratory policy. This job description is no where given to the Allopathic Doctor who majors in Pathology. NMA and her members should be amendable to discipline by working according to their job description. She should put off the toga of “Jack of all Trade”. Allopaths who major in pathology are by job description to be the doctors’ doctor, a consultant to his fellow doctors and not to sit, to usurp the job function of another distinct professional group, the Medical Laboratory Scientist.

NMA AND IMPOSITION OF MASTER-SLAVE RELATIONSHIP IN THE NIGERIA HEALTH SECTOR
Allopathic Medicine like every other Profession has its humble beginning. The training of Allopaths started as “MEDICAL APPRENTICESHIP” which gave rise to Medical Assistants. Through evolutionary trends it has metamorphosed to what it is today, where from being a “Medical Apprentice” to a “Doctor of Medicine (MD)”. Today Surgeons, who were one time called “Barbers” were medical assistants to the Priest and they did all the menial jobs the Priest as Priest could not do. The separation of medical practice from Priesthood gave rise for surgeons to have autonomy which came with enrichment of their scope and corpus of knowledge acquired.
The former Barber-Surgeon, a Middle Manpower and Medical Assistant became a distinct full-fledged practitioner of the Act, Art, and Science of healing. Initially Allopathic Medical Practice and Surgical Practice where distinct. The amalgamation of Allopathic Medical Practice and Surgical Practice gave rise to the certification “MBBS or MBCH”.
Allopathic Medicine commonly called Orthodox Medicine did not start just as “MBBS or MBCH” it had a humble beginning. A situation where NMA makes prescription that other Medical Practices like Nursing, Pharmacy, Optometry, Radiography/Medical Imaging Science and Medical Laboratory Science etc should not advance in scope and in corpus of knowledge is gross absurdity. The recommendation of NMA takes us back to the days of “Antediluvian Patriarchs” in the practice of Medicine in Nigeria.
Allopathic Medicine is not indigenous to Nigeria and that is not how it is practiced in other clime like in the UK, USA, FRANCE, HOLLAND, DENMARK etc. In such places where International Best Practice is maintained is Medicine practiced as a Master-Slave Relationship as prescribe by NMA? The answer is no.
Under the Nigeria Civil Service, the law provides that such appointments have statutory flavor. This being at the back of our mind, NMA cannot dictate how people should be employed, their job description, how they are to rise and where they are to terminate in the employment. NMA should stop carrying herself as if she is the Government that assigns responsibilities. Just like every other person in the Health Sector, the members of NMA are also just employees of the Government. Government through her policy directives have provided how things should be done.

NMA AND PREJUDICE
In line with section 172 of the Nigerian 1999 constitution (as amended) “A Person in the Public Service of the Federation Shall Observe and Conform to the Code of Conduct”. The code of conduct as exemplified in the Constitution fifth schedule part 1, articles 1, 9 and 10 provides:
Article 1: “A Public Officer shall not put himself in a Position where his personal interest conflicts with his duties and responsibilities”.
Article 9: “A PUBLIC OFFICER shall not do or direct to be done in abuse of his office, any arbitrary acts prejudicial to the rights of any other person knowing that such acts is unlawful and contrary to”
Article 10: A public officer shall not be a member of, belong to or take part in any society the membership of which is incompatible with the function or dignity of his office. A situation where NMA calls her members to take laws into their hands in other to undermine the laws of the land by promoting their own personal interest is against the fundamental principle of the practice of “TRUE MEDICINE” “THAT A PHYSICIAN MUST CAUSE NO HARM”.
The action of NMA undermines the code of conduct for public officers, her actions is prejudicial to rights and responsibilities of other Healthcare Professionals. Above all her public outcry has nothing to do with patient interest, rather they are self serving.

NMA AND MISAPPLICATION OF THE DICTUM INTERNATIONAL BEST PRACTICE:

Each time NMA goes contrary to the laws of the land, she shouts “International Best Practice”, forgetting that the world is a global village. The “International Best Practice” is that expert Administrators administers hospitals. All over the world most hospitals have non-Allopathic Doctors as Chief Executive Officers. These Chief Executive Officers are individuals, who have bias in Hospital Administration and Management, not necessarily having a degree in Medicine or in Medical Sciences. And these Hospitals are doing well. As a result of the misinterpretation of the decree 10 of 1985 and the emergence of Hospital Chief Executive as Allopathic Doctors, “Things Have Fallen Apart and the Centre Cannot Hold, Mere Anarchy is loosed Upon the World”. The Hospitals have become hoodwinked territories by NMA and her likes that run the place according to their whims and caprices. All over the world it is not only Allopathic Doctors that are appointed as “Consultants” in their chosen field of expertise. There are Consultant Pharmacist, Consultant Optometrist, Consultant Physiotherapist, Consultant Radiographer, Consultant Biomedical Scientist etc., but the prescription of NMA is that all these autonomous Professions should remain as “Middle Man Power” even when the laws of Nigeria lucidly proclaims that they are “High Level Man Powers”. Is this also International Best Practice?

NMA AND HER ATTACK ON THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND TEMPLE OF JUSTICE.
It is a Constitutional creation that judicial Power is vested in all the Courts of competent jurisdiction in Nigeria. Without prejudice to section 6 (1) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) “The Judicial Power of the Federation Shall Be Invested In the Courts to Which These Section Relates, Being Courts Established for the Federation”. Again, section 11 (1) empowers “The National Assembly to Make Laws for the Federation or any Part Thereof With Respect to the Maintenance and Securing of Public Safety and Public Order and Providing, Maintaining And Securing of Such Supplies and Services as May be Designated by the National Assembly as Essential Supplies and Services”.
A situation where NMA attacks the National Assembly for doing their jobs which is law making in order to maintain peace and harmony in the Nigerian State is unfortunate. A situation where NMA also attacks the Temple of Justices for rendering land mark judgments that will strengthen democracy and Healthcare Practice in Nigeria is highly worrisome. NMA and her cohorts should know that a situation where they are attacking the different arms of Government is following the “Path of Autolysis”. It is time for NMA to curb her excesses, bearing in mind that she is just a mere “Association” and not an arm of Government