Nigeria: Medical Workers Threaten Strike Sept 30
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Daily Trust (Abuja)
8 September 2008
Posted to the web 8 September 2008
Ruby Rabiu
Medical workers unions has threatened to go on strike on September 30 to protest non payment of monetisation arrears by the federal government.
According to a communiqué issued at the end of the Joint Health Sector Union emergency meeting held at the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Labour House at the weekend, (JHSU) bemoaned the delay antics employed by the government regarding payment of monetization arrears.
The communiqué was signed by Nana Takai and Ngozi Osunde (National Association of Nurses and Midwives), Elder A.E Archibong and Ralph Iloka (Senior Staff Association of Universities, Teaching Hospitals, Research Institute and Associated Institutions), C.N Nwobodo and I.G Jibia (Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria), F.O Faniran and I.O Okebiorun (National Union of Pharmacists, Technologists and Other Professional Allied to Medicine).
The union declared the health workers would not issue another strike notice to government if its monetization arrears among other demands were not met by September 30.
The communiqué read in part: "The session however frowned at the lackadaisical and time buying approach of the Federal Government on the settlement of monetization arrears from 1st October, 2003 to 30th September 2005. The session herein demand that the arrears be paid on or before 30th September 2008. The joint session, therefore, give the Federal Government of Nigeria from now to the end of September 2008, to meet the unions demands as itemized above or face industrial action without further notice from midnight of 30th September, 2008."
Commending the Federal Government for the on-going verification of pensioners for speedy payment, the protesting workers enjoined government to ensure payment before the end of September to avert the impending strike.
They are also demanding the reinstatement of essential departments that have been the outsourced.
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The unions also called on government to prevail on the Chief Medical Director of Ido Ekiti federal medical centre to reinstate the unjust sacked medical workers in the institution.
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