The Federal UK has signed the second in a fortnight, Memorandum of Action, MoA, with striking Nigeria Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, to end the action.
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, said that the new MoA was signed after a conciliatory meeting between representatives of the Federal Government and those of NARD.
Senator Ngige said Saturday’s meeting became necessary to amend the first MoA signed with the striking doctors.
While directing health institutions affected by the non-payment of salary shortfalls between 2014 and 2016 and arrears arising from the consequential adjustment on the National Minimum Wage to forward their personnel strength, Senator Ngige noted that there were irregularities in the payment of salaries of House Officers, explaining that while some got double payments, a few had not been paid.
The minister noted that the issue of Hazard Allowance was not peculiar to members of NARD but that it cut across the entire health system.
He said that the Presidential Committee on Salaries, PCS, would meet with the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission on April twelfth to examine the Hazard Allowance issue.
Senator Ngige appealed to NARD to give the conciliation process a chance for industrial peace to prevail by calling off the strike.
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