Doctors Strike: Ngige Reveals FG’s Plan

• Ngige insisted that it was now time to invoke the no-work-no-pay rule.

Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, disclosed that Federal Government will call the leadership of the striking National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) into a meeting for the purpose of ending the ongoing strike.

EKO HOT BLOG had earlier r that the NARD, an association of doctors undergoing residency training, had on Thursday commenced what it called “a total and indefinite strike” despite government’s last-minute efforts to stop the action.

Shortly before the strike started, the leadership had signed a memorandum of action with the Federal Government team, which made Ngige to describe the strike as being in bad faith.

He had threatened that if the strike continued, the government would look at all labour laws and consider the options available to it, including that which empowered employers to protect their enterprise.

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But on Sunday, Ngige insisted that it was now time to invoke the no-work-no-pay rule.

The minister said, “We have not reached there (no-work-no-pay option). I said so earlier.

“We are going to have a formal meeting with them so that they will let us know the areas of the memorandum of action they signed that they do not agree with.

“The meeting will hold next week. Immediately work resumes, we will contact them and invite them to the meeting.”

Ngige, however, said there was the need for the strike to end.

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