By Kazeem Akolawole
The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) has expressed optimism as President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his vice was sworn in to usher in the new administration in Nigeria.
The National Vice Chairman, JOHESU, Comrade Obinna Ogbonna in a phone interview with the Africa Health Report, AHR, said the health workers are optimistic that the new administration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu will do better than his predecessor.
“We want to give President Bola Ahmed Tinubu our Support and we also expect him to support our cause because he is now the president of Nigeria and part of his duty according to the constitution of Nigeria is to take care of the welfare and the security of the citizens.
“We believe that part of the welfare he needs to meet is the condition of service and the welfare of the workers. The new administration has met and inherited the industrial action. It is left for him and the government to quickly see it as a national project and to showcase that he is caring and wants to bring peace to the health sector.
“It all lies on the government now to invite us, not us going to the government because already the trade dispute is there, the ball is now in the court of the government,” he said.
On the agenda set for the new administration and the personality to take over as Minister and minister of state for health, Ogbonna said, the office is meant for an administrator who is experienced in health.
“The person will be very passionate and will not be biased in dishing out its duties because the office is the place where the occupier takes charge of human and non-human resources and manages them.”
“It is not where we do an injection or where medical and laboratory investigations as we are trained to do. We are looking forward to ministers that would be all-encompassing.”
