The Nigerian Medical Association in Ekiti state, has urged medical doctors to live a low profile lifestyle and be security conscious to reduce incidence of kidnapping among them.
The association also urged the National Assembly to enact a law with punitive measures against kidnappers in the country.
No fewer than six people, two of whom were a former Chief Medical Director of Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Dr. Patrick Adegun and a senior nurse at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido Ekiti, Mrs Margaret Aladenika had been kidnapped in the state in the last two weeks.
Addressing a press conference in Ado Ekiti on Thursday, the Chairman, NMA in the state, Dr. John Akinbote, said the association was disturbed and disappointed by the level of protective and investigative measures put in place so far by the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Joshua Ibine and the Director of Department of State Service, Mr Duke Fubarian in curbing the menace of kidnapping, murder and other criminal activities in the state.
He said: “It is appalling that several security meetings in the state have yielded little or no single result as medical doctors, health workers, lecturers and other citizens still move about with morbid fear of possible attack.
“We want to correct the erroneous and questionable belief that medical doctors, nurses and lecturers are well paid in the state as we have evidences of outstanding salaries and promotional arrears yet to be paid to these categories of civil servants.”
He expressed the need for the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase and other stakeholders to ensure a “coordinated and proactive” security strategy to put an end to all security challenges in the state.
Calling for punitive laws to curb kidnapping, the association also stressed the need for the harmonisation of all laws enacted in various states to end kidnapping
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