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Striking Doctors Spreading Lies About Being Owed Salaries – Ngige

Oluwafemi Ashaolu by Oluwafemi Ashaolu
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Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, has accused striking resident doctors of spreading propaganda that they are being owed salaries by the federal government.

Ngige said this on Tuesday at the opening of the meeting of the Presidential Committee on Salaries with the leadership of the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) in Abuja.

The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) in the country commenced an indefinite strike on August 1, over the failure of the federal government to fulfil an agreement signed with the union, including payment of salary arrears and allowances.

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But the minister claimed that no doctor or health worker in Nigeria is being owed salary by the federal government.

According to him, the “fumes from the propaganda machine of NARD were obfuscating the reality of the Federal Government’s efforts to re-position the health sector”.

“NARD goes about telling Nigerians that government is owing them salaries and that government is not taking the problems in the health sector serious. But this is not true. It is incorrect. No doctor, nurse, pharmacist or any other health worker including the driver is owed monthly salary. Government pays as and when due”, Ngige was quoted as saying in a statement by Charles Akpan, the ministry’s deputy director of Press and Public Relations.

“The truth is that NARD doctors fail to tell Nigerians that their colleagues who are owed salaries are the ones illegally recruited and were therefore neither captured by the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation nor were their payments provided for by the Budget Office of the Federation.

“Monthly salaries are done as and when due for those legitimately employed by the Federal Government but not to those illegally employed and who need their appointments regularized and captured in the finances of government for payment. This takes a process which is not accomplished overnight”.

Speaking further, the minister referred to the presidential waiver for employment into the critical health and defence ministries in view of the general embargo on employment, and assured that doctors illegally recruited will have their service regularised in due course.

He, however, said that the money which the federal government owed few doctors and other workers was the 2020 COVID-19 allowance, besides the arrears of the consequential adjustment of the National Minimum Wage and skipping allowance, which he said cuts across other sectors.

He added that work is in progress to make the payment.

He blamed the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and JOHESU for bringing segregation in the negotiation for the new hazard allowance which the federal government already budgeted the sum of N37.5 billion for.

“We started joint negotiation to round off discussion and implement new hazard allowance as early as possible so as to stave off the current wolf-crying by doctors. They brought in segregation and couldn’t agree with JOHESU and both now want separate negotiations. Why then blame the government and make it an issue to strike for,” he added.

 

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