Doctors say Aregbesola is “unwilling” to pay their 6-month salaries

by Kolapo Olapoju

The Doctors in Osun state have joined the civil servants to protest the deliberate non payment of basic remuneration.

According to the medical practitioners, the governor is ‘unwilling’ to pay their salaries.

The Chairman of Nigeria Medical Association Action Committee in the state, Dr. R.A. Adebayo, wrote a letter to the governor, accusing him of collecting up to March, 2015 allocation but he refused to pay doctors and other workers.

If the claim by the doctors is anything to by, one wonders why Osun state governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has refused to pay their salaries for the past 6 months.

The NMA also accused Aregbesola of paying political appointees their fat allowances while workers who were paid peanuts were left unpaid.

The letter read in part: “Despite the non-payment of six months salaries to doctors and other civil servants in Osun, contractors and political office holders have been the beneficiaries of the available revenue accrued to our state from the federation account.”

“Our association therefore concluded that the non-payment of six months salaries to our members as well as other civil servants is not a matter of government inability but unwillingness to pay.”

Furthermore, the association said that Aregbesola should be blamed for any action taken by doctors if their salaries were not promptly paid.

 

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