Health workers in Kaduna State have suspended the five-day warning strike they began on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that the workers embarked on the strike to press for improvements in their welfare package.
This decision was announced in a communiqué signed by Nassa Yashi, the State Secretary of the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), and issued on Wednesday in Kaduna.
Yashi stated, “The health workers engaged in a frantic and meaningful discussion with the government, which resulted in the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The suspension is also to allow for further negotiations and to await the government fulfilling its side of the MOU. The strike is hereby suspended, and the workers are expected to resume their normal duties immediately.”
The state administrative council (SAC) expressed sincere appreciation for the massive support and resoluteness of the workers in making the struggle for better welfare a success. Yashi assured members of their readiness to represent them effectively, adding, “Do not forget, it is a suspension, meaning if the promises made are not fulfilled, we shall resume the industrial action at the appropriate time.”
