By Muhammed Shaeed
August 29th, 2024
The Federal Government has urged the members of the National Association of Resident Doctors to call off their seven-day warning strike.
During a visit on Thursday to Kaduna National Eye Centre, Dr Tunji Alausa, the Minister of State for Health, made the appeal and assured them their kidnapped colleague, Dr. Ganiyat Popoola, would return home safely.
He said, “We are on top of the matter and have been on talking terms with the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, regarding the issue.
“I have spoken with the Commissioner of Police and everyone is working hard to bring her back alive,” he said.
“I appeal to you to call off the strike and let’s keep praying that she comes back home in peace,” the minister appealed.
Recall that the members of the association began a seven-day warning strike to push for the rescue of a Kaduna-based doctor, Dr Ganiyat Popoola.
Popoola, a staff of the centre, was kidnapped in December, 2023 and has now spent about nine months in the kidnappers’ den.
Meanwhile, the Chairman of the association, National Eye Centre, Dr Ibrahim Mohammed, told the newsmen that the strike was still on.