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The Action Congress of Nigeria on Sunday said the Lagos State Government acted responsibly in sacking the striking doctors in its employ.
In a statement by ACN National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party accused the doctors of flouting industrial laws by declaring the strike that led to their dismissal without issuing the necessary notice to their employers.
The party said the doctors were also guilty of misconduct because they refused to answer the queries issued to them after the strike.
ACN said, “The government acted responsibly and in accordance with the necessary rules and regulations.”
The party explained that the strike was the desire of a group that wanted to continue to hold the government and the people to ransom through incessant strikes.
“The state government has met all the demands of the doctors during their earlier strike.
“The latest strike is based on unreasonable demands by the doctors, who are asking the state government to pay them far in excess of what was contained in Consolidate Medical Salary Scale.
“It is on the basis of this unrealistic demands that the doctors gave a mere 24-hour notice to embark on an three-day warning strike, and gave no notice at all to embark on their now ill-fated indefinite strike, without worrying about the impact of their action on the public.”
The party said it was cheap and uncharitable for the PDP to try to cash in on a serious issue by using such term as ‘fascist’ to describe the doctors’ dismissal.
It challenged the ruling party to say how much the PDP states pay the doctors in their employ and how many doctors each of them had employed.
Culled from The Punch.
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