Monday 21 March 2016

Photo: Another protest hits Lagos over unpaid salaries

The clinical and non clinical staff of cardiac and renal centre, Gbagada, Lagos on Monday, March 21, carried out a peaceful protest over non payment of salaries.

 The affected members of staff lamented that the management has refused to take actions to resolve the payment of six-month salary arrears. 


Some clinical and non clinical members of the renal and cardiac centre protest in Gbagada, Lagos. Photo: Abiola Atoyebi

 According to NAIJ.com’s Abiola Atoyebi, this peaceful protest was led by the billing officer, Olalekan Oluwole who spoke on behalf of the protesting staff. He said: “we will not resume to work until our payments are made.”


 Oluwole said several efforts to persuade the management seemed futile as they resolved to seek assistance of Locum radiologist for diagnostics services since the commencement of the strike action. 

Speaking on the claims, the CEO, cardiac and renal centre, Professor Babatunde Green attested that he was aware of the non-payment of salary and that the workers were right to stage the protest as citizens of the country, adding that he wished this action was not happening when it did because he is barely five months into his appointment at the center. 

He said also, that he needs the staff to serve the patients because when patients are served, money will be generated to make payment, stating further that he cannot give a definite time for payment of salaries but assured that work was being done on effective means to generate funds. Only last week, the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), during a protest in Lagos, described the decline in the state of electricity supply and erratic fuel supply in the country as unacceptable to Nigerians. 

The group said Nigerians can no longer be denied “the fundamental rights to free movement and social justice”. CDHR asked the Buhari led federal government to to fix power supply. 

It also called for a judicial inquiries into the the recent fallings in the two critical arrears that it claimed hinges on the daily lives and routines of Nigerians with the view to identifying the fundamental problems and proffering the solutions.

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