Edo Medical Workers Insist On Warning Strike As Okpebholo Condemns Action

Despite the presumption of the Edo State authorities that the ongoing informing onslaught of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) was ill-conceived, the workers, connected Sunday, vowed to proceed the onslaught enactment which started midnight connected Friday.

The union, successful a connection by its State Chairman, Comrade Osagie Ogbeide and Secretary, Barivure Kpakol, past week, said a 14-day ultimatum fixed to the authorities authorities expired past Thursday with the authorities not showing committedness to their demands, hence it directed each members to retreat their services “with contiguous effect successful each State and Local Government Areas wellness facilities until the State Government demonstrates genuine committedness and takes factual actions towards addressing the Union’s outstanding demands for its members.”

But, the authorities governor, Monday Okpebholo, has frowned astatine the onslaught action, alleging that it was being orchestrated by immoderate of the Union leaders for their selfish interests.

A connection by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Fred Itua, said the authorities had been progressive successful negotiations connected the issues they raised and viewed the onslaught arsenic “ill-timed, unpatriotic, and wholly unjustified, particularly coming astatine a clip erstwhile meaningful negotiations betwixt the Union and the Government are ongoing.”

The connection said a gathering to proceed the dialog with the authorities authorities had already been scheduled for Monday, adding that the issues raised by the Union were mostly inherited from the past medication of Governor Godwin Obaseki.

“Among the demands of the Union is the renovation of the Doctors’ Quarters, which is already receiving the attraction of the State Government, alongside different welfare-related matters.

“It is truthful shocking and disappointing that the enactment of the national would hastily state a strike, claiming Government insensitivity, when, successful fact, the contiguous medication has demonstrated open-mindedness, bully faith, and a proactive resoluteness to amended the wellness sector.

“This abrupt determination by the Union enactment does not lone undermine ongoing dialog but besides exposes a deficiency of sincerity and respect for the dialog process.

“The Edo State Government finds nary merit successful the telephone for this strike. The enactment appears driven by ulterior motives and other fiscal demands known lone to a fewer individuals successful the Union’s leadership, to the detriment of the wide membership.

“Failure to output to these unlawful fiscal demands from officials of the State Government by a fewer greedy members of the enactment of the Union, birthed this ill-conceived concern action,” the authorities authorities said.

The politician said the onslaught has placed the lives of mediocre and helpless Edo citizens particularly those successful request of urgent aesculapian attraction astatine hazard and that that the enactment amounted to the betrayal of the Hippocratic Oath of the aesculapian assemblage which places the preservation of quality beingness supra each else.