ABEOKUTA—THE National Association of Government General Medical and Dental Practitioners, NAGGMDP, has issued a 21-day ultimatum to 13 state governments over the backlog of unpaid salaries to members, threatening to cripple health care services if the affected governments failed to meet its demand.
Speaking through its National President, Dr Nurud-Din Akindele, at a briefing in Abeokuta, Ogun State, the doctors said the affected states owing between two and eight months salaries included Abia, Anambra, Bayelsa, Ebonyi, Ekiti, Enugu, Kogi, Ondo, Nasarawa, Osun, Oyo and Plateau states.
The association also threw its weight behind the action of Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, which dragged governors owing workers’ salaries before the International Criminal Court of Justice, ICC, at the Hague.
Akindele, flanked by the Publicity Secretary and Acting General Secretary of the association, Dr Isiaka Adekunle and Dr Olufemi Oroge, respectively, also appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari, to compel the states to pay their workers, saying it was callous for any state to owe its workers.