Union locks out Abia health management board over arrears of salaries 

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Governor Ikpeazu

By EMEKA OKAFOR, Umuahia
Joint Union of Staff working under the Abia State Health Management Board (HMB) Friday morning locked out their top management person­nel over arrears of 16 months’ salary and vowed to continue with their protest until the state complies with an earlier agree­ment it signed for the payment of three months to clear the accumulated arrears.
The staff who converged to protest under the Joint Union within the State Government Agency that comprised Chair­men of Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, Nigeria Civil Service Union, among others, defied the early morning heavy rainfall to stage the protest.
Daily Independent reports that the protesting workers had locked the entrance gate into the premises of the agency at about 8:12 a.m. and stopped movement into the premises while placards were pasted on the entrance gate to express their grievances to the state government.
Some of the placards past­ed at the entrance gate had dif­ferent inscriptions that read, “HMB Workers are dying of Hunger, Pay Us Now,” “Abia State Please Our Children are Out from School Due to Non-payment of School Fees,” “Pay Us Our 16 Months Arrears.”
It was observed that while the workers staged the pro­test, some emissaries from the Chief Executive of the Agen­cy, Dr. Christopher Aharauwa, arrived and began to appeal to the workers to call off their pro­test with the firm promise that the management has received commitment from the state government to start payments of their arrears, an appeal the workers rejected and demand­ed that they would not accept one month salary payment rather, the government should pay them two months upwards.
However, our correspondent who witnessed the protest, re­vealed that none of the Joint Union leaders that called out the workers were present within the vicinity while the protesting workers staged the protest, as it was gathered that they had gone to effect the lock down of the Board’s zonal offic­es in Abia and Ohafia.
When contacted on his cell phone number on Friday eve­ning, the state Chairman of Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, Comrade Okoro Ogbonna, said the protest by the workers of the health agency was as a result of the breach of agreement reached between the leaders of the Health Unions in the state.
“We are not happy that the state government has not been able to keep to the signed agree­ment especially on the arrears of salaries owed to the HMB staff and others in other state government tertiary health institutions and agencies.” (Daily Independent)

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