Strike: JOHESU Calls For Sack Of Health Minister Adewole
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The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) has called for the sack of the Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole over what they termed “unfair treatment” by the Minister.
The National General Secretary of the Union, Comrade Obesesan Oluwatoyin made the call following the northeast zonal consultative forum of the allied health professionals in Gombe yesterday.
JOHESU made the call amidst the lingering rift between the Union and the Health Ministry.
The JOHESU national leader accused the Minister of bias in handling issues in the administration of the Ministry.
He said the Minister had lost what it takes to head the ministry of health, thereby, denigrating the position through his lopsided actions.
Comrade Oluwatoyin, while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the meeting, said the Minister of health should be blamed for the lingering strike.
He stressed that the Union resolve to continue with the strike action until President Muhammadu Buhari intervenes in the matter.
He said: “The Ministry of health has placed itself to work against this Government, we are calling for the sack of the Minister of health because he has shown that he is incompetent in the administration of the Ministry”.
Directing his anger towards the Minister, he noted: “The Minister is not responding, he is talking as a Doctor forgetting that he is father to all.
“What we are asking is simply that the Federal Government should make sure that they implement the agreement they signed with us on 30th September, 2017”.
Denying rivalry with Nigeria Medical Association [NMA], he said that “there is no rivalry between JOHESU and NMA, our problem is with the Federal Government”.
He explained that, “the thing is that whatever the NMA says, the Minister comes to the negotiation table and re-echo it, which means, they are together working in tandem to make sure that they block us from getting what we are getting.
“If the Minister had not been reechoing what the NMA had been saying, we would not have joined issues with the NMA”.
“The Minister came out openly to say that JOHESU wants to collect what the Doctors are collecting.
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“What we want is that the Doctors salaries be transcribed to our own salary.
“The Minister has refused to obey over ten court judgments in favour of JOHESU. The Minister is partial,” he emphasised.
Condemning the present structure of the Ministry, he said that “the Ministry must be restructured.
“It’s not supposed to be the Ministry for Doctors alone the way it is now, everything in the ministry is skewed to Doctors.
“This is injustice, other professionals must be reckoned with in the whole scheme.
“We are sorry, the Ministry of health and Doctors say we are not important.
“We are slave, we are supportive workers, forgetting that we have our own roles in the health system.
“Now that we are on strike, there is nothing we can do, that is why the President must intervene as a matter of urgency,” he concluded.
Meanwhile the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki has intervened in the ongoing JOHESU industrial action.
The Senate pledged to do what is right to end the strike and ultimately find lasting solution that would prevent strikes by health workers in the country.
The President of the Senate gave the assurance when the Union’s Chairman, Comrade Biobelemonye Joseph, led other executive members of the group on a visit to Saraki in Abuja.
