I Won’t Be Blackmailed Over Doctors’ Demands – Wike

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has taken a steadfast stance against the indefinite onslaught initiated by nonmigratory doctors successful FCTA hospitals, declaring that helium volition not beryllium blackmailed oregon stopped from executing captious infrastructure projects for the city.

On Thursday, during the flag-off ceremonial for constructing the Arterial Road N1 from Wuye District to Ring Road II, the Minister addressed the concern enactment head-on, framing it arsenic a governmental instrumentality alternatively than a genuine grievance.

“The SSS called me, and radical said they would show that we are paying attraction to roads and not paying attraction to health. I called the director, ‘Listen, objection is allowed everywhere.’ Nobody volition blackmail me. Nobody volition halt maine from doing what I deliberation is close and doing it astatine the close time.

“I person ne'er seen a state wherever we thrive connected blackmail. This is not my road, but Wike’s oregon President Tinubu’s. It is simply a roadworthy that volition unfastened up economical activities and amended the payment of the radical here. So there’s thing excessively peculiar that we are doing it due to the fact that lone we volition usage the road? No.

“The radical who present say, look, they are being owed allowances, fine. We mislaid our Head of Service; we conscionable appointed an acting Head of Service. And I said, okay, spell and check: however overmuch are they talking about? They said, Oh, they person not employed doctors,” helium said.

Wike dismissed claims that his medication was prioritising roadworthy operation implicit healthcare, revealing that the 2025 superior fund for the wellness assemblage unsocial is N25 billion.

He blamed bureaucratic delays for the unresolved issues, stating that the FCTA lone received fund support from the National Assembly successful July.

Addressing the circumstantial grievances of the doctors, which see unpaid allowances and a shortage of employed aesculapian personnel, Wike said that the processes to resoluteness them are underway, but indispensable travel owed procedure.

“If the Permanent Secretary, Treasury, brings the measure present for the allowances, what is my concern? Why would I clasp it? They volition pay. But cognize that everything has a procedure.

“But each these things are due to the fact that radical are inciting you to strike. A onslaught doesn’t enactment that way,” helium said.

He accused governmental actors wrong the civilian work of inciting the onslaught for their ain purposes and warned them that their efforts were successful vain.

“I besides cognize that civilian servants are egging connected governmental heads who are encouraging them. You are wasting your time. I cognize this due to the fact that you don’t recognize that we person been successful authorities for a agelong time,” helium said.

The Minister dared the striking workers to proceed with their planned demonstrations but clarified that they would not halt authorities activities.

“But if you archer maine you volition demonstrate, you volition artifact the road, I told the manager of SSS, let them to demonstrate, but cipher tin halt maine from holding this juncture today, not one. Enough is enough,” helium said.

Wike concluded by reiterating his committedness to dialogue, but connected his terms, insisting that the due channels indispensable beryllium followed. “We volition beryllium down and we volition robust retired issues. That is the mode it is done,” helium said.