The Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas says very soon concerted actions will be taken towards ending the strike action embarked upon by the National Association of Resident Doctors.
Abbas made this known during an interview with State House Correspondents after he led the Principal Officers of the House of Representatives to the office of President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday.
He said “they briefed the President on the meeting they held with the leadership of the striking Doctors and plans are already in to meet some of their demands.”
“It is a work in progress. I am sure with some of the issues that they have raised, if we can be able to meet some of their expectations; of which we are already working on that. We have already set up an ad-hoc committee chaired by the Majority Leader of the House to look at the issues they raised.
“I am sure one or two interventions in their areas of concern will prevail on them to come back to the negotiation table,” the Speaker explained.
Abbas said President Tinubu appealed for patience from the striking Doctors, as he has not been fully briefed yet on their concerns.
“He said he is just coming on board and we should ask them to please give him more time as he is completely unaware of most o the things that they mentioned and he is yet to be briefed about the issues.
“He also advised that we should channel all the issues to his Chief of Staff to enable him lok at them one after the other so I believe within the next coming days some concerted actions will be taken,” Abbas said.
The Speaker said he used the occasion of the visit to the President to introduce all Principal Officers of the House of Representatives to him.
Mercy Chukwudiebere
