The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja’s Association of Resident Doctors has declared that a three-day warning strike will begin on Tuesday, May 6.
Following an emergency congress meeting on Monday at the Asokoro District Hospital in Abuja, the doctors made their decision.
Following the meeting, Dr. George Ebong, president of FCT ARD, stated that the strike was required since the FCT Civil Service Commission had fired 127 health professionals last Friday without conducting adequate due diligence.
He demanded their immediate reinstatement and the payment of their April salaries, calling the dismissal cruel and unlawful.
Additionally, he demanded that Emeka Ezeh, the head of the FCT-CSC, quit immediately.
Ebong vowed to go on an indefinite strike and close the country’s capital hospitals if their demands were not fulfilled by FCT Minister Nyesom Wike and the FCT Administration in three days.
Because the majority of the members were dismissed from duty on Friday without doing their due diligence, we are starting a three-day warning strike. These coworkers of ours are still employed by the system today, despite being labeled as ghost workers, ex-employees, and absconders.
We are furious that the FCTA service commission will make such a callous choice without consulting the Medical & Dental Consultant Association of Nigeria, MDCAN, the Permanent Secretary of Health, the Association of Resident Physicians, or the Health Management Board. Lab scientists, nurses, and pharmacists are also impacted, in addition to physicians.
“These hospitals’ management directors don’t know. Three MDs are actually impacted.
127 medical professionals are impacted. How do these hospitals function if these numbers are ghost workers? The medical facilities would have fallen apart. How many employees do FCT hospitals have?
Without warning, the salaries of the impacted healthcare workers were suspended. last month’s salary. Health personnel are being treated unfairly and insensitively by this blatant conduct.
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“We demand that all impacted healthcare workers receive their salaries immediately.
“A letter of apology to the impacted healthcare professionals.”
“The prompt resignation of Mr. Emeka Ezeh, the chairman of the service commission.”
“It is a three-day warning beginning tomorrow, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, at 8 am, and if our demands are not met within the three days (Friday, May 9, 2025), we will go on an indefinite strike following an evaluation,” he said.
