The protesters, under the umbrella of Health Pensioners of the Anambra Local government system, carried placards with various inscriptions and marched along Enugu/Onitsha expressway, Awka.
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The unions had earlier threatened to disrupt normal services in hospitals and other health care facilities across the country over Federal Government’s inability to meet their members demands.
Biobelemonye Josiah, JOHESU’s National President, said this in a letter addressed to the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, and other relevant stakeholders on Saturday in Abuja.
Ugwuanyi made the announcement when he addressed a delegation from the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU), comprising members of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), Nigeria Union of Allied Health Professionals (NUAHP) and Medical and Health Workers Sector Union of Nigeria (MHWUN), at the Government House, Enugu.
The body also appreciated the Governor for allowing the local councils to run independent of the state government, asserting that the Local Government Service Commission is now fully in charge of the councils.
The Joint Health Sector Union, Federal Medical Centre, Owo chapter, on Monday called on the Federal Government to redeem its pledge of implementing all agreements between them.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the state government reacted barely six hours after receiving the threat for the strike over salary cut.
Biobelemoye attributed the industrial action to what he described as the “insensitivity and lackadaisical attitude of drivers of the health sector’’.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has described as an afterthought, the defence put up by the outgoing administration of Governor Kayode Fayemi that it is engaged in last minute illegal financial transactions and recruitment of workers into the state’s public service.
The health workers had gone on strike in June 2012 and another between March 27 and April 8 this year on the matter