RESIDENT Doctors at the University of Nigeria Teach­ing Hospital (UNTH) in Enugu State have vowed to continue with the 10 month-old strike they embarked on indefinitely.

 

This was contained in a communique issued at the end of an emergency meeting of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) in the hospital and made available to news­men in Ibadan yesterday.

 

The communiqué, which was jointly signed by the ARD President, Dr. Ugwuoke Ifedinso, and General Secre­tary, Dr. Ndiokwelu Chibuzo, also urged President Muham­madu Buhari to prevail on management of the hospital to accede to the doctors’ requests of disheartening Teaching Al­lowance Arrears, advance­ment arrears, 2 months rela­tivity arrears, all outstanding update and exam refunds and capitations due to ARD UNTH.

 

 

Meanwhile, workers of Abia State Polytechnic, Aba, including academic and non -academic staff, have resolved to boycott the institution’s second semester examina­tions scheduled to start today over non-payment of five months salary arrears. It was gathered that the academic staff union of the polytechnic held a meeting on Wednesday last week, where they directed their members to stay out of lecture halls on Thursday and Friday.

 

Consequently, the union in a memorandum, officially notified the management that it was going to ensure that the second semester examinaions slated for today, will not hold, citing the inability of the state government and the manage­ment of the institution to pay five months’ salaries owed them as reason.

 

Acting Rector of the in­stitution, Professor Uche Ikonne, confirmed to news­men that the workers of the polytechnic were owed five months salary arrears, which he attributed to the N2 billion loan the institution obtained from a first generation bank through the last administra­tion.

 

By Oluseye Ojo

Daily Sun