What is your take on the non-payment of salaries for doctors employed by the Lagos State government?

Tell Fashola that he is a tyrant. Anybody that attended a Nigeria University 25 years ago, who is a graduate of the first generation and the second generation of a Nigeria university that has gone through a university at a cost that is equal to no cost and he's now saying that a Nigerian child should pay N300,000 in a state university, that person is breeding a milieu for potential Boko Haram, prostitute, criminals, armed robbers. The milieu will be built because the common woman who fries plaintain, runs a small boutique or that guy who vulcanises your tire or those that earn meagre salary cannot afford the pay and those children will come back to be what? I attended a university when the entire education for me to study medicine was not up to N20,000 for six years because I was only paying tuition, I was paying N45 for accommodation per section, I was taking N90 or N120 per month between 1986, 1987 to 1993 and it still doesn't matter because we all belong to the same generation and Fashola belongs to that because he is just in his 50s. So, the same level of tyranny is what will inform him to have hated the Lagos State employed doctors. Why he hates them is simple, his predecessor and his political god-father, Tinubu pretending to be an advocate of a democracy in 1999 was able to ride on the euphoria of that moment to deal a decisive blow on Lagos State employed movement when that culminated into the sack of Ayodele Akele, then they thought he was rude but because of the high level of intellectualism among doctors, they continued with the battle. The only people that formed a formidable opposition which led to protest of the Lagos State doctors between 2007 till date is why the Lagos State Government is bent on annihiliating the medical profession. And you know, health is wealth, any nation that is waging war against the health of his people by targeting the custodian of health is only destined to ruin. Since the last 3 years, the Lagos State Government has refused to employ any doctor on full-time basis, whereas all other employee has been done. Our Comrade in Edo State, Governor Adams Oshiomhole was casualising the workers too, he casualised almost all the work force of Edo State but because he could see the massive tsunami of protest and uprise of the Edo people, he unequivocally reversed that. In fact, he had to sacrifice his permanent secretaries that failed to comply. So, in Edo State, casualisation has been completed wiped out but Lagos State is the only state in the country that has continued to employ doctors on casualisation because the doctors have been the only ones confronting the state government since 2007. We just came back from a strike and the strike was not to ask for increment of salary, we were saying that all Nigerians should have access to health, that if your family member dies from Ebola, he should have life insurance, hazard allowance, these are basic things we were talking about. We were saying the post-graduate programme should be all encompassing for Nigeria to produce more specialists and are these things wrong? They flattened it and said doctors are asking for money and at the end of this, the Federal Government and the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) had a truce. The truce was such that, there will not be any victimisation and negotiation will be on going but Lagos State said, it's a policy of no work, no pay. When for 8 months, the Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) went on strike, the Lagos State chapter was paid, when the judiciary workers were on strike, they were paid. The polytechnic staff went on strike and they were paid and they were saying no work, no pay for doctors. Since the strike has been called off, we have written over 50 letters and the Governor never replied.

But the Lagos State House of Assembly already said they were going to intervene on that?

There are a lot of good people in the House of Assembly but the Lagos State Government is like the proverbial dog that will get lost, that will never listen to the flute of the hunter and that is what Fashola represents.

http://www.dailytimes.com.ng/article/fashola-tyrant-lagos-nma-chairman Read more....

nigerians should be truthfull to them self
...education is and can never be cheap
...look at the top 100 school in d world and tell me which is bellow 4 million a year
...if u want good education u should be ready to pay for it

mrvitalis:
nigerians should be truthfull to them self
...education is and can never be cheap
...look at the top 100 school in d world and tell me which is bellow 4 million a year
...if u want good education u should be ready to pay for it

Those schools have systems in place where money can be loaned and paid back after you graduate so you can not equate the "100 schools in the world" to Nigeria.

The point is Fashola has not done anything in education he has failed the medical sector. How come he can not pay the state doctors as instructed why are they all part time no benefits?

mrvitalis:
nigerians should be truthfull to them self
...education is and can never be cheap
...look at the top 100 school in d world and tell me which is bellow 4 million a year
...if u want good education u should be ready to pay for it

Yes quality education is expensive.....but d question now becomes...."Does LASU offer QUALITY education?"

ifyclose2:
Yes quality education is expensive.....but d question now becomes...."Does LASU offer QUALITY education?"

it depends on which quality u have in mind.....APC quality,PDP quality or world Class quality....

Am a big fan of BRT, but i think his administration is too elitist.

Intresting.

The masses that will vote now know better since one man wants to make them to pay through their nose to attend university.

Is this Fashola a tyrant?
Maybe na him do "controlled demolition" of TB Joshua house.

ifyclose2:
Yes quality education is expensive.....but d question now becomes...."Does LASU offer QUALITY education?"

Ify ask themoo

melojames:
Am a big fan of BRT, but i think his administration is too elitist.

Especially when these slums are now overloading with kicked out Lekki residents