Doctors all over the federation on October 26, 2016 participated in a road walk as part of the efforts marking this year’s Physicians’ Week . The aim of the road walk was to draw our governments (federal and states) attention to the implementation of the National Health Act. Regrettably, a vanguard correspondent, Dirisu Yakubu, blew the road walk out of proportion and captioned it ‘NMA to Buhari: Pay us our entitlements or face showdown’. That caption was more confrontational and portrays NMA as a belligerent professional association.

 

In view of this, I call on the National Officers’ Committee (NOC) of our NMA , ably led by our indefatigable national president, Prof Mike Ogirima, to as a matter of urgency demand an unreserved apology from the management of The Vanguard Media limited who are the publishers of Vanguard newspapers. Such apology must be published in three major national dailies. This is necessary because our supposed bellicose neighbors in the health sector can easily cash in on such caption to further portray the image of our noble association in the bad light.

 

Here is a link to the article and the obnoxious caption published by Vanguard Newspapers and reported by their correspondent, Dirisu Yakubu: NMA to Buhari: Pay us our entitlements or face showdown