Prepare to take your destiny in your hands, Josiah tells health worker

The President of Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN), Biobelemoye Josiah, has charged the health workers to be prepared to take their destiny in their hands; otherwise, their rights would be denied them.

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“Unless we agree to take our destiny in our hands, nobody in that ministry will be human enough to give us what is due to us;” he told his members while addressing the 45th Session of the National Executive Council (NEC), meeting of the union in Abuja.

He gave the charge, even as he warned the Federal Government that the health workers would resume another round of strike if it failed to urgently meet their demands.

Comrade Josiah told the health workers to be prepare to take their destiny in their hands, as very soon, they would be called upon to commence an indefinite round of strike.

Aware of the effect of yet another round of strike on the masses, the MHWUN President called on all Nigerians to prepare their minds and bear with them on the struggle to get better health service delivery to them.

On the reasons for the strike, Josiah emphasised that the continous inability of the government to meet their demands; especially on the payment of Skipping arrears, is no longer acceptable and would no longer be tolerated.

“Comrades, we have to prepare ourselves. We will no longer take that deceitful story of there is no money.  At the appropriate time, we will come to you so that we will carry out our destiny in our hands.

“We call on Nigerians to have that understanding with us when the time comes because if the same ministry can appropriate to pay illegal items to the medical doctors such as skipping arrears; they can’t tell us there is no money.

“Another exposure of insincerity on their side was that after paying the medical doctors skipping arrears, which they were not supposed to benefit, they now went into the Federal Executive Council with a so-called white paper that skipping has been abrogated. Can FEC quash the ruling of any court?

“If we believe in the rule of law, they just have to pay us that money because they have paid those who are not entitled to it.

“Even when the Income and Wages Commission advised that these people are not entitled to this money, don’t pay them, the same government, the same Ministry of Health that said there is no money still went ahead to pay them.”