Our correspondent observed that the strike was still on Monday
and the doctors said they could not be frightened by the threat, saying they
earned one quarter of the salaries of their colleagues in other state
in the county. But they said that despite the meagre pay,
they were being forced to pay double the taxes charged their
colleagues who were better paid.
Some of the doctors, who spoke to our correspondent in Osogbo on
Monday said they had yet to receive letter of termination of appointment or any
memo that they had been sacked.
The chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association, Osun State,
Dr. Suraj Ogunyemi, when contacted said he had not been told that the scam
threat had been carried out.
The NMA had dared the governor to carry out the threat and they
also threatened to frustrate the governor’s alleged plan to bring in doctors
from Cuba to take over from their Nigerian colleagues.
The Chairman of the Osun State Association of Medical and Dental
Officers, Dr. Isiaka Adekunle, when contacted also said he had not seen any
sack letter.
He said, “I have not received any sack letter but we are still
watching. We are in touch with our members and we have not been told that any
of them has been sacked.”
When contacted, the Head of Service in the state, Mr. Sunday
Owoeye, tactically declined to comment on the issue.
He said, “I am not available now. Please get back to me by next Friday.”
The doctors embarked on the current strike to reject half
salaries which the government was paying.
The state governor had on December 18 given the
doctors a seven day ultimatum that any doctors who failed to resume on December
25th should consider themselves sacked.
The ultimatum was later extended to last Friday and
the governor said at a forum that he would implement civil service rule on this
if the doctors failed to resume on Friday, January 8.
Source:
The Punch
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