The leadership of Medical and Health Workers’ Union of Nigeria, MHWUN, weekend, sought President Muhammadu Buhari’s permission to meet and discuss directly with him the lingering issues threatening the stability of the health sector.
The National President of MHWUN, Mr Josiah Biobelemoye, made the appeal in Abuja at the 40th anniversary lecture of the union, on the theme: ‘Industrial Relations in Nigeria Today: Challenges and Prospects.’
Biobelemoye, who alleged bias against the union by some powerful people in the Federal Ministry of Health, said: “My request today is that the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces should grant us audience. If that opportunity is given, he will know the truth which shall set the health sector free.
“We will expose thr truth to him are about protracted issues that are before the ministry such as the adjustment of CONHESS salary scale, the proposed privatisation of public health institutions as well as the issues of grand corruption in our health institutions and unfair treatment meted on our members. If the nation is truly democratic, we must allow every medical and health worker the liberty to aspire to the peak of his calling.”
President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, Mr Ayuba Wabba, said the way out of the woods of industrial disharmony in Nigeria is for the political class to recognise workers as partners in progress and the creators of the nation’s wealth.
