NMA slams NLC, TUC over JOHESU solidarity strike

Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) through its president, Dr. Kayode Obembe, as described as ill-timed the strike threat issued by the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) in solidarity with the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU).


Members of JOHESU have threatened to go on strike in the event of failure of the federal government to meet their demands.

In a statement, Dr Kayode Obembe and NMA's Secretary General Dr Adewunmi Alayaki said the health worker' timing was ill- fated.

"We regret that the NLC and the TUC have particularly chosen this period of national grief and severe trauma occasioned by series of bomb blasts with mass casualties; the kidnap of our daughters and sisters in Chibok by insurgents and several other calamitous events bedeviling our beloved nation to issue a threat to the Federal Government, " NMA said.