Resident medical doctors on the College of Ilorin Instructing Hospital (UITH), Ilorin, Kwara State, on Friday, staged a peaceable protest over the kidnapping of their colleague in Kaduna State.
LEADERSHIP remembers that Dr. Ganiyat Popoola, a workers of Nationwide Eye Centre in Kaduna, was kidnapped alongside her husband and a nephew when bandits raided the workers quarters of the hospital, on December 27, 2023.
The chairman of the Resident Medical doctors Affiliation at UITH, Dr Yusuf Muhammed, mentioned they had been shedding their persistence, due to the inhumane therapy their kidnapped member was receiving from her captors within the final seven months.
“It’s changing into very worrisome, so we proceed to have interaction with the administration on each the state and federal ranges. We additionally attempt to meet with safety companies to see what they’re doing, however due to the sensitivity of the matter, they might not expose some data.
“What we intend to do is to deliver this dialogue to the limelight, in order that well-meaning Nigerians will impress it on the federal government the necessity to safe her launch,” he mentioned.
He mentioned that the nationwide secretariat of the Nationwide Affiliation of Resident Medical doctors (NARD) has given authorities two weeks to deliver again the kidnapped member, including that August 16 marks the top of first week, and that it was anticipated on the finish of the second week, their kidnapped colleague could be launched.
He warned that failure to safe Dr Ganiyat’s launch will pressure the NARD to name out its members on an industrial motion.
Muhammed suggested the federal government in any respect tiers to beef up safety round establishments and the nation as an entire.
LEADERSHIP experiences {that a} comparable peaceable protest to name consideration to the plight of Dr. Ganiyat in capability happened on the Nationwide Eye Centre in Kaduna on Thursday.
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