Dear Beloved Nigeria Nurses, 

 

It is no more news that there is industrial disharmony in Nigeria health sector which FMOH is treating with disdain.  Sequel to this lingering crises a meeting of the five member union of JOHESU and member of Assembly of health care professional  association AHPA (the two bodies which NANNM is a member) met today Tuesday, 12th of September, 2017 to do a critical review of the situation as it is affecting individual trade unions in JOHESU and AHPA and plan strategy towards executing  the seemingly  inevitable strike action, the doom which FMOH have had a more than enough time  and opportunity to address and avert but which was refused to treat with the urgency and importance it deserved. 

 

Dear professional colleague I wish to inform you that it was jointly agreed that a grace of seven days  be given for FMOH to sincerely address the various issues staring our individual unions in the face or be made to face mother of all industrial action (indefinitely). The industrial action shall be in two phases starting with FHI and to be joined by state and local government if nothing  tangible is done  genuinely between one week. The attention to our members demand shall not be in piece meal but in full. The demand that are common to all member unions of JOHESU will be jointly presented for negotiations while the individual union concern will not be neglected as the meeting has set machinery in motion to go into achieve to collate all union demands.

 

Furthermore, I wish to bring to your notice that the list of demands being circulated on social media that is generating controversy is particularly from NUHAP and not general JOHESU list of demand as majority of our members tend to believe. The evidence is that the list were documented on NUHAP letter head. Certainly non of our demand shall be compromised. 

 

NANNM as a professional association on her own has set out strategic plan to get every strata of the association properly mobilized and every stakeholders should await consultation and meetings to drive home our all inclusive mobilization and preparation towards an effective industrial action. 

 

Media releases on this should be expected  as joint press conference of JOHESU will be held in Abuja. NANNM headquarters has concluded move to utilize the mass media to achieve our mobilization and dissemination of our members concerns

 

Finally, I wish to assure you all that the leadership of NANNM has the interest of nurses at heart and therefore will not be party to anything that can retard this noble profession nor infringe on the welfare of her members.

 

I however want to implore you to let us continue to stand in unity and give no room for distrust and disunity I believe that in unity we shall truly stand.

 

Thank you

 

Signed

Abdrafiu Adeniji

NANNM President.