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| Gov. Rauf Aregbesola |
| Gov. Rauf Aregbesola Rauf AregbesolaOsun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola may have backed down on the theat to sack all doctors in state owned hospitals who have been on strike since Seotember 28. |
It was observed that the strike was still on Monday andthe doctors said they could not be frightened by the threat, saying they earned one quarter of the salaries oftheir colleagues in other state in the county.
But they said that despite the meagre pay, they were being forced to pay double the taxes charged their colleagueswho were better paid.Some of the doctors, who spoke in Osogbo on Monday said they had yet to receive letter of termination of appointment or any memo that they had been sacked.
The chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association, Osun State, Dr. Suraj Ogunyemi, when contacted said he had not been told thaht the scam threat had been carried out.
The NMA had dared the governor to carry out the threatand they also threatened to frustrate the governor’s alleged plan to bring in doctors from Cuba to take over from their Nigerian colleagues.
The Chairman of the Osun State Association of Medical and Dental Officers, Dr. Isiaka Adekunle, when contacted also said he had not seen any sack letter.He said, “I have not received any sack letter but we are still watching.
We are in touch with our members and we have not been told that any of them has been sacked.”SEE ALSO: Osun APC calls for three-day fasting, prayersWhen contacted, the Head of Service in the state, Mr. Sunday Owoeye, tactically declined to comment on the issue.
He said, ” I am not available now. Please get back to me by next Friday.”The doctors embarked on the current strike to reject half salaries which the government was paying.
The state governor had on December 18 given the doctors a seven day ultimatum that any doctors who failed to resume on December 25th should consider themselves sacked.
The ultimatum was later extended to last Friday and the governor said at a forum that he would implement civil service rule on this if the doctors failed to resume on Friday, January 8.
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