Kaduna SURE-P health workers protest non-payment

Kaduna SURE-P health workers protest non-payment

Monday, August 31, 2015 7:10 pm


Femi Adi/ Kaduna

Governor Nasir El-Rufai: SURE-P health workers protest

Governor Nasir El-Rufai: SURE-P health workers protest

Kaduna Midwives and Community Health Extension Workers, who were engaged under Subsidy Re-investment and Empowerment Programme, SURE-P have embarked on a road protest over the failure of the state and local government Councils to pay their allowances for the past 35 months.

Habiba Suleiman who led the protesters to the Kaduna State Nigerian Union of Journalists Secretariat today said when they were engaged in 2012, there were promised a monthly allowance 50 thousand naira each, with the Federal Government paying 50 per cent and the state and local councils making up the remaining 50 per cent.

Under the arrangement, the state government was supposed to pay 15 thousand naira, while the local government will pay 10 thousand naira.

Habiba said only the federal government had kept its side of the bargain.

” It is unfortunate that since we were engaged ,both the state and local government have not given us anything. This is the 35th month, the third year since we started working in September 2012.”

Though she said the problem started with the previous government, she called on the state governor Malam Nasir El-Rufai to as a matter of urgency intervene and get their allowances paid to them.

The protesters who carried Placards with inscription such as “Save! Save!! Save!!! Maternal and Child Mortality and Morbidity,” “We demand for the payment of our arrears,” and “We demand that all our outstanding allowances should be paid,” among others, also urged El-Rufai to ask the local government to pay them.

The women had earlier taken their protest to Government House where they were told by the permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health that their allowances were being processed.

According to the leader , they sensed a foul play with the way their issue was being handled by the Ministry.

“We were surprised when the Ministry only agreed to pay us from 2014-2015 while we have been working since 2012. So what happened to our two years arrears? She questioned.


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