The National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (NARD) have
postponed their strike action scheduled to commence today June 9th, by
one week, after a meeting with the speaker of the House of
Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, at the National Assembly yesterday June
8th. At the meeting, Dogara asked for a one week postponement so him
and members of the House committee on Health can meet with the Minister
of Health to fashion out ways of meeting the demands of the doctors.
“It doesn’t matter what faith you profess, for instance, it is clearly
stated in the Holy Bible that a labourer should be paid his wages even
before his sweat dries. I believe that as a responsible government we
know this. It is not like we don’t know. But as to challenges facing
you, these are not things that we had discussed before, I only heard
through the briefings I was given. If it is possible for you to open
this window for us in the immediate to call on relevant persons who are
in charge of this, in conjuction, of course, with active participation
of your good selves, the relevant committees of the House, so we can sit
at a table like this. I can sit down with the chairmen of committees,
some members of the relevant committees, with your good selves and
members of the ministry and they can bring these issues so we’ll
understand why someone will work for four to eight months and not be
paid. What is the problem? And then, we will attempt to address these
issues together and if it doesn’t work, we can’t stop you from venting
your anger and expressing your grievances. I appeal to you to give us
till next week when I hope we will be able to invite them and we will
sit down together and iron out the issues.”he said
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