President of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) Dr.
Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, has said that the people who deserve to resign or
be sacked from their duties are those who have put the doctors in a
position where they have to embark on industrial actions to drive home
their demands.
Okhuaihesuyi stated this in his reaction to comments by the Labour
Minister, Chris Ngige, about replacing the striking doctors.
Monday marks the expiration of the one-week ultimatum given by the
Labour Minister for the striking doctors to resume work.
Their failure to resume would result in the escalation of other measures
by the minister.
The Minister on Friday, had said that he had invoked Section 43 of the
Labour Law which states, in part, that for the period a worker withdraws
his services, the government or his employers are not entitled to pay.
But in reaction, the NARD president said: “I want to ask Nigerians to
tell those that are the cause of the strike and have not done their work
that they should be sacked or resign from the positions they hold”.
