Nurses Warn Against Punishment For Members As Strike Ends – Independent Newspaper Nigeria

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ABUJA – The leadership of the National As­sociation of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has cautioned government representatives against hunting and punishing nurses who participated in its recent industrial action across the country.

Recall that Nurses angered by a number of industrial related wel­fare issues, embarked on a nation­wide strike, throwing the sector under serious crisis.

The development prompted an intensive dialogue by the relevant stakeholders, after it was tabled by the Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Ali Pate at the Federal Executive Council meeting on Thursday, which was presided over by the President, Bola Tinubu.

Recall that NANNM recently announced the suspension of the nationwide strike at the weekend.

In a three-page resolution after a series of meetings with relevant stakeholders, the NANNM leader­ship warned,” we are against pun­ishing members that participated in the strike which began on July 29″.

The leadership announced the setting up of a committee to moni­tor the implementation of the agree­ments reached at the meetings.

The resolution was signed by the NANNM President, Comrade Haruna Mamman; the Associa­tion’s General Secretary, Comrade T. A Shettima; Director of Human Resources in the Federal Ministry of Health, Dafeta T. Tetshoma; Di­rector of Trade Union Services and Industrial Relationship in the Feder­al Ministry of Labour and Employ­ment, Falonipe Amos O.

It was resolved that “in view of the formal agreement reached and in line with principles of dialogue and good faith, NEC hereby sus­pends the ongoing nationwide strike action immediately.”