Unruffled El-rufai sacks nurses during NLC strike

Admin l Tuesday, May 18, 2021

 

KADUNA, Nigeria – The Kaduna State Government today demonstrated to the Nigeria Labour Congress(NLC) that the worst is yet to come from him, when he ordered the sack of all nurses below Grade Level 14 during the ongoing five day warning strike.

The sack notice is unconnected to the decision of nurses in the state to join the ongoing warning strike. Nurses  at  Barau Dikko Teaching hospital had allegedly disconnected oxygen from a two-day old baby in an incubator on Monday, May 17, 2021 when they joined the NLC strike.

In the statement  signed by  Muyiwa Adekeye, Special Adviser  to the governor on Media and Communication,  El-Rufai  referred the nurses involved in the strike to the Ministry of Justice for  prosecution and announced the dismissal of all nurses below Grade Level 14 for the illegal strike.

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“The Ministry of Health has been directed to advertise vacancies for the immediate recruitment of new nurses to replace those dismissed.

“The government has directed all its Ministries, Departments and Agencies to submit their attendance registers to the Head of Service while Kaduna State University should submit same to the Secretary to the State Government and the Commissioner of Education”, the statement added.

El-Rufai explained that salaries that could have been paid to the dismissed nurses will be given as extraordinary occupational allowances to the health workers who are at their duty posts to fill the gaps when the nurses absconded from duty.