Juliet Jacob Ochenje
Disgruntled staff of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), have called out the agency on social media over unpaid five months salaries.
Reports of protests by doctors, nurses, midwives, community health extension workers (CHEW) and other categories of workers under the NPHCDA were on Wednesday reported.
The workers alleged that the agency was not paying them their entitlements in full and without explanation.
“The doctors are being paid N45,000, while over 80 percent have not been paid a dime since their posting in July 2023, contrary to the contract engagement entered with them,” one of them said.
“Over 80% of us are yet to receive a dime,” he lamented, adding that “We communicated to the official channel but they have given us fake promises after which they remained unresponsive to our persistent issues regarding our monthly payment as contained in the contract.
“We are calling them out in the media because we have no option We exhausted all possible means to get the management to pay our overdue salary but to no avail,” he added, in an interview published by Sahara Reporters.
The protest continued on X, with workers calling out the agency in comments under a post made by the NPHCDA on Thursday.
Registered Nurse Bello @SundayBelloOlu1, tweeted, “National Primary Health Care Development Agency, have you embezzled the rest our of money? Why are you paying in fragments? Pay us our long over due salaries for July, August, September and October.
“Doctors, nurses, midwives, Chews deserve to be paid their full.”
Also, Muhammed Hassan @Muhamma15685050 wrote, “Pay SBA their due salaries, we are not slaves.”
Another worker, Rich Leneke @LenekeJ tweeted, “Please attend to the plights of the SBAs and Emergency Medical Services Systems (EMSS) employees. Their wail is abundant online and offline. They are all
demotivated and it’s not the best.”
Taking it further, Favor Chidimma @Chidimmafa76711, added, “Pay us our salaries health workers deserve pay.
“Pay employees their complete arrears, We are humans not slaves..”
