Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has sacked all nurses
below grade level 14 in the state for embarking on strike in solidarity with
the Nigeria Labour Congress.
The governor directed the Ministry of Health in the state to
immediately advertise vacancies for the replacement of the dismissed nurses.
Kaduna State has been grounded in the last 48 hours as
aviation workers, bank workers, rail workers, electricity workers, health
workers, teachers, amongst others, down tools in protest against the alleged
injustice of the El-Rufai-led government and the mass sacking of over 60,000
civil servants.
However, the governor in a statement on Tuesday titled,
‘KDSG will not tolerate criminal acts disguised as industrial action’,
described the action of the NLC as a “campaign of economic and social sabotage
and lawlessness”.
In the statement signed by the governor’s Special Adviser on
Media and Communication, Muyiwa Adekeye, El-Rufai warned that any worker not
found in his or her place of assignment would be dismiss.
It partly read, “KDSG (Kaduna State Government) acknowledges
doctors and some other categories of health workers that are trying to run
public health facilities, but regrets that some nurses have joined the unlawful
strike and engaged in sabotage of some of our health facilities. Nurses were
implicated in the forceful discharge of patients in many health facilities.
“Reports from Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital disclosed that
some identified nurses disconnected the oxygen supply of a two-day old baby in
an incubator on Monday, 17th May 2021. The names of the three nurses from the
Special Baby Care Unit who were involved in this despicable act have been
forwarded to the Ministry of Justice to initiate prosecution for attempted
murder or murder in the event we lose the baby.”
The statement added, “The Ministry of Health will dismiss
all nurses below GL 14 for going on an unlawful strike. Salaries that could
have gone to them are to be given as extraordinary occupational allowances to
the health workers who are at their duty posts to fill the gap of those
absconding from duty. The Ministry of Health has been directed to advertise
vacancies for the immediate recruitment of new nurses to replace those
dismissed.
“Any academic staff of KASU (Kaduna State University) that
does not report for work will be dismissed. The authorities of KASU are to
submit a copy of the attendance register for all categories of staff daily to
the Secretary to the State Governemnt and the Commissioner of Education.
“All MDAs are also to submit daily copies of attendance
register to the Head of Service.”
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