Amidst the ongoing strike in Kaduna State, the State Governor, Nasiru El-Rufai has directed the Ministry of Health to dismiss all nurses below grade level 14 for going on an unlawful strike.
This was contained in a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the Governor, Media and Communication, Muyiwa Adekeye in Kaduna.
Adekeye said the salaries that could have gone to the dismissed nurses will be given as extraordinary occupational allowances to the health workers who are at their duty posts to fill the gap of those absconding from duty.
He said the Ministry of Health has been directed to advertise vacancies for the immediate recruitment of new nurses to replace those dismissed.
The statement read that, any academic staff of Kaduna State University that does not report for work would also be dismissed.
“The authorities of KASU are to submit a copy of the attendance register for all categories of staff daily to the Secretary to the State Government and the Commissioner of Education”.
Adekeye disclosed that all MDAs are also to submit daily copies of attendance register to the Head of Service.
According to him, the NLC’s actions is as equivalent to the actions of the bandits kidnapping and menacing citizens, saying, bandits illegally use arms, but the NLC is deploying mob action for exactly the same ends trying to hold hostage the freedoms, economic interests, livelihoods and resources of the people of Kaduna State.
“It is a vain expectation that this government will respond differently to sets of unlawful actions that have the same ends”.
He added that, government will not submit its treasury to the entitled minority.
“We will reform and rightsize our public service to meet the needs and resources of the Kaduna State even if the NLC strikes ad infinitum. The government remains committed to using all the resources it can generate to serve the interests of the majority of its citizens, providing social services beyond paying salaries, always putting the interests of the many ahead of the few”.
Emmanuel Ukoh
