Henry Umoru

ABUJA- STRONG indications emerged, Tuesday, that striking members of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) are set to call off their two-week-old strike.


According to the Doctors, with the intervention of the President of the Senate, who happens to be the number three citizen, and the assurance he gave them, they have resolved that the planned national protest would be canceled while the decision on the ongoing strike would be taken later.


The resolution came after a closed-door meeting with the President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio and the Leadership of the Senate.

Speaking with Journalists shortly after the closed-door meeting with the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio and other Principal Officers of the Senate, the National President of the association, Dr Emeka Innocent Orji, said, “We had a very fruitful meeting with the Senate led by the President of the Senate and from our discussions with them, we are very hopeful that when we table our discussions today before the NEC, something positive would come out.


In his remarks, Senator Akpabio who thanked the medical doctors for honoring the Senate by calling off their planned national protest and also working towards calling off the strike, said, ” I thank you on behalf of the Senate for honoring us with your decision not only to cancel the planned public protest but to also call off the strike in the interest of the suffering masses.


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Fair enough.

The doctors will be very foolish to call off this strike on the basis of promise to fulfil their demands. FG has never kept to any promise and won't keep to this too.

They won't resume till minimum demands are met