Return to Work or get Sacked, Aregbesola Warns Striking Medical Doctors

OSUN State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has given a seven-day ultimatum to striking medical doctors in the state to return to work or consider themselves to have voluntarily resigned their appointments.The governor, who gave the warning in a statement signed by the Permanent Secretary, Human Resourc­es and Capacity Building, Mr. Sunday Festus Olajide, at the weekend, condemned the action of the medical doctors who, he said, were not ready to show under­standing like other labour unions during the period of the state’s travails occa­sioned by poor federal allo­cation to the state.
The statement lamented that despite series of ap­peals from the government to the medical doctors in Ladoke Akintola Univer­sity of Technology (Laut­ech) Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, and other govern­ment health institutions, the striking doctors remained adamant.
It lamented that the doc­tors had continued to draw their salaries in the last two months without working, thus eating their cake and still want to have it.
Aregbesola warned that any striking doctor that failed to return to work on or before the expiration of the seven days ultimatum beginning from December 18, should consider him­self or herself to have vol­untarily resigned his or her appointment.
The statement declared that the ongoing industrial action was illegal, lament­ing that the striking doctors did not follow due process, and had breached their pro­fessional oath of service.
The medical doctors commenced an industrial action since Monday, Sep­tember 28.