The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja’s Association of Resident Doctors has declared that a three-day warning strike will begin on Tuesday, May 6.
Following an emergency congress meeting on Monday at the Asokoro District Hospital in Abuja, the doctors made their decision.
Following the meeting, Dr. George Ebong, president of FCT ARD, stated that the strike was required since the FCT Civil Service Commission had fired 127 health professionals last Friday without conducting adequate due diligence.
He demanded their immediate reinstatement and the payment of their April salaries, calling the dismissal cruel and unlawful.
Additionally, he demanded that Emeka Ezeh, the head of the FCT-CSC, quit immediately.
Ebong vowed to go on an indefinite strike and close the country’s capital hospitals if their demands were not fulfilled by FCT Minister Nyesom Wike and the FCT Administration in three days.
Due diligence was not done before the majority of the members disengaged from service on Friday, thus we are starting a three-day warning strike. These coworkers of ours are still employed by the system today, despite being labeled as ghost workers, ex-employees, and absconders.
We are furious that the FCTA service commission will make such a callous choice without consulting the Medical & Dental Consultant Association of Nigeria, MDCAN, the Permanent Secretary of Health, the Association of Resident Physicians, or the Health Management Board. Lab scientists, nurses, and pharmacists are also impacted, in addition to physicians.
“These hospitals’ management directors don’t know. Three MDs are actually impacted.
127 health workers are affected. If these numbers are ghost workers, so how do these hospitals operate? The hospitals would have collapsed. What is the staff strength of FCT hospitals?
“The affected health workers salaries were stopped without any prior notice. The salaries for last month. This is a clear act of insensitivity and injustice to health workers.
“We demand immediate salary payment for all the affected health workers.
“Apologies letter to the affected health workers.
“The immediate resignation of the chairman of the service commission, Mr. Emeka Ezeh.
“It is a three-day warning starting from tomorrow, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, at 8 am, and if within the space of three days (which is Friday, May 9, 2025), our demands are not met, we will go on an indefinite strike after an appraisal,” he stated.
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