hehehe...RESIDENT Doctors at the University
of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) in Enugu State have vowed to continue with
the 10 month-old strike they embarked on indefinitely.
This was contained in a communique
issued at the end of an emergency meeting of the Association of Resident
Doctors (ARD) in the hospital and made available to newsmen in Ibadan
yesterday.
The communiqué, which was jointly
signed by the ARD President, Dr. Ugwuoke Ifedinso, and General Secretary, Dr.
Ndiokwelu Chibuzo, also urged President Muhammadu Buhari to prevail on
management of the hospital to accede to the doctors’ requests of disheartening
Teaching Allowance Arrears, advancement arrears, 2 months relativity
arrears, all outstanding update and exam refunds and capitations due to ARD
UNTH.
Meanwhile, workers of Abia State
Polytechnic, Aba, including academic and non -academic staff, have resolved to
boycott the institution’s second semester examinations scheduled to start
today over non-payment of five months salary arrears. It was gathered that the
academic staff union of the polytechnic held a meeting on Wednesday last week,
where they directed their members to stay out of lecture halls on Thursday and
Friday.
Consequently, the union in a
memorandum, officially notified the management that it was going to ensure that
the second semester examinaions slated for today, will not hold, citing the
inability of the state government and the management of the institution to pay
five months’ salaries owed them as reason.
Acting Rector of the institution,
Professor Uche Ikonne, confirmed to newsmen that the workers of the polytechnic
were owed five months salary arrears, which he attributed to the N2 billion
loan the institution obtained from a first generation bank through the last
administration.
By Oluseye Ojo
Daily Sun
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