Members of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives in Ondo State, on Tuesday, went wild during a meeting of the State Executive Council meeting.
The meeting was to discuss issues of the attack on three Nurses at the Federal Medical Centre, Owo, the 50 percent half salary paid to state workers and the relationship of the body with the Joint Health Sector Union, an umbrella body of medical health workers in the country.
But angry nurses in the employ of the state government stormed the meeting with placards demanding for a strike action over payment of 50 percent salary for the month of November, 2020 and other emoluments owed them.
Several attempts by the Ondo NANNM leadership to calm protesters down failed. Ondo Chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Comrade Oluwole Adeleye, was booed and mobbed out of the meeting. Some of the nurses in the employ of the state government said they got N18, 000 as salary and cannot continue to work on empty stomach until all their allowances are paid.
The State Chairman of NANNM, Olumiye Kehinde, however said there was no notice for strike action by Ondo nurses.
