JOHESU: FG’s suit to stop strike demonic, amounts to sustained misinformation, falsehood

The Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) has described an Order of Interim Injunction from the National Industrial Court (NIC), compelling it to immediately resume duties as a plot to disparage JOHESU.

Speaking at an emergency news conference on behalf of the national body of JOHESU in Abuja yesterday, Dr Godwin Okara, the Chairman Assembly of Healthcare Professionals Association (AHPA), said the matter is now at the Court of Appeal.

Dr Okara said the suit was a calculated attempt by the Federal Ministry of Health to demonise JOHESU through sustained misinformation and falsehood.

He added that JOHESU had filed Court Processes before the Court of Appeal on May 21, challenging the locus standi of the Kingdom Human Rights Foundation International, an NGO.

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“JOHESU had before the receipt of this Court Order filed Court Processes in the National Industrial Court and the Court of Appeal on May 21, 2018, challenging the locus standi of the NGO and the jurisdiction of the court to entertain the suit.

“The move is a follow up to the calculated attempt to demonise JOHESU through sustained misinformation and falsehood by the Federal Ministry of Health and the Kingdom Human Rights Foundation International, an NGO, which is neither our employer nor a party to the agreement JOHESU signed with Government.

“The NGO has constituted itself into a meddlesome interloper,” Okara said.

He also expressed concern over the persistent attempts by the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) to misinform the public through malicious fabrication of accusation and blatant lies that JOHESU members had locked up theatres, consulting rooms, laboratories and wards.

 

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