The National Vice President, Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, MHWUN, Comrade Onuh Edoka has called on the Kogi State governor Alhaji Yahaya Bello to henceforth begin the full payment of health workers salaries in the Local government with immediate effect.“These workers are still having their promotion in their hands without being cashback. We there call on the government to consider our members and implement their promotion. It is becoming worrisome for one to be in the same salary for over nine years with the present harsh condition of the nation’s economy.
“The journey under us was able to put in place a structure to ensure happy salary structure was paid to our workers on option C comfortably. Despite all the struggle then that the government did to us, we were able to migrate from option C to what we are having today CONHEALTH.
“I would say it clear that the salaries that are paid in percentages is better off than what it used to be. We have witnesses to Salary payment at 15 per cent, 20 per cent, and 30 per cent respectively. But as I speak to you today at the local government level, the salaries are been paid at 50 per cent. However, it is not enough to say what we earn at 50 per cent as our salary is justifiable”
On the newly inaugurated caretaker committee of MHWUN, Comrade Edoka explained that the National Headquarter of the union decided to put a structure of ensuring that a new phase is given to the union.
source: Tribune
