FG, health workers meet today over strike.

The Federal Government will today meet with leaders of health workers who embarked on strike across the country last Wednesday. The meeting, expected to help resolve the longstanding row, will be attended by the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu; Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu and leaders of Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU).

Some of the health workers unions to be represented at the meeting are Medical and Health Workers’ Union of Nigeria (MHWUN), National Association of Universities, Teaching Hospitals, Research Institutes and Associated Institutions and National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM). The outcome of today’s meeting will either bring the current industrial action at federal hospitals to an end or force workers in health facilities across the states and local government of the federation to join their colleagues on Wednesday as earlier planned. The strike followed alleged failure by the Federal Government to implement the ruling of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) on the feud between the warring parties.
The workers blamed the action on the Federal Government, which they accused of failing to honour a peace deal signed after the court verdict. But Chukwu described the court’s judgement “as a bundle of confusion and contradiction.” While calling on the workers to sheath their swords in the interest of the nation’s citizenry, the minister accused them of being impatient, noting that the issues raised by them were still under litigation at the Appeal Court.
On the reason he did not implement the court’s verdict, the minister said: “Our lawyers strongly advised that this ruling does not hold water; that the judgement is contradictory and it is a bundle of confusion and contradiction. “The lawyers, after critically studied the judgement, advised that we should appeal the ruling because if left unchallenged at the Appeal Court, it would cause problem and confusion for the government and the entire country.





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