Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, OFR, has announced that his administration would not opt for negotiated settlement with non-medical workers who dragged the government before a court, regarding the slashing of their salaries.

 

He argued that since it was not the state government that instituted legal proceedings against the purportedly aggrieved workers, it had no business succumbing to out-of-court settlement. The governor, who made this assertion while responding to a speech by the National President, Medical and

 

Health Workers of Nigeria, Comrade Biobelomoye Joy Josiah during a courtesy visit in Kano, explained that the decision to regularize the salaries of non-professional workers in the health sector, in line with what obtains in the mainstream Civil Service, was done in good faith.

 

According to him, “Since they are not doctors or medical and health workers, and indeed they do not belong to your association, we said they should get what they rightfully deserve, to enable us save money to meet competing demands, in light of the present recession,” the governor emphasized.

 

He maintained that in most states, paying non-profession cadre of workers in the health sector at par with professionals is no longer feasible, thus there was no reason why Kano should be an exception.

 

Earlier, the National President, Medical and Health Workers of Nigeria, Comrade Biobelomoye Joy Josiah, who doubles as the President, Joint Health Sector Union of Nigeria, told the governor that executives of his association are in Kano to attend the 40th session of Tertiary Health Institutions National Consultative Forum Meeting.

. Leadership