The Federal Government has
insisted that no doctor or health worker is being owed salary.
Chris Ngige, the Minister of
Labour and Employment, said the Federal Government pays the salaries of doctors
and health workers when due.
He stated this during a
meeting of the presidential committee on salaries with the Joint Health Sector
Union (JOHESU) in Abuja on Tuesday.
The minister said the
explanation became necessary to address the members of the National Association
of Resident Doctors (NARD).
NARD members are currently on
strike over alleged salary irregularities.
However, Ngige said: “NARD goes
about telling Nigerians that the government is owing them salaries, and as well
not taking the problems in the health sector seriously. But this is not true.
It is incorrect
“No doctor, nurse, pharmacist
or any other health worker, including the driver, is owed a monthly salary.
Government pays as and when due.
“The truth is that NARD fails
to tell Nigerians that their colleagues who are owed salaries are the ones
illegally recruited. Therefore, they were neither captured by the office of the
head of service of the federation, nor were their payments provided for by the
budget office of the federation.
“Monthly salaries are done as
and when due for those legitimately employed by the federal government, but not
to those illegally employed or need their appointments regularised and captured
in the finances of government for payment.”
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