Three years after rejecting the transfer of their salary structure from the Local Government Service commission to the Primary Healthcare Management Board, Health workers in Rivers State appear to have made a u-turn on the matter.
This is because the Rivers State Chapter of the Primary Healthcare Workers’ Association of Nigeria is now asking the state government to transfer the salary structure to the Primary Healthcare Management Board.
The State Chairman of the Association, Daniel Atieme said the change of mind was due to the failure of the Local Government Service Commission to pay the primary health workers the consolidated salary structure three years after the two bodies reached the agreement.
Atieme, who spoke in an interview with newsmen, said his association had written a letter to Governor Nyesom Wike who he said had promised to transfer the salary structure at the end of this month.
“What we are asking for is for the government to facilitate the transfer of their salary structure from the Local government service commission to the Primary Healthcare Management Board.
“We have taken a decision on that and we expect that the Governor will do the needful,” he said.
Recall that the Association in conjunction with the leadership of Rivers State Chapter of the National Union of Local Government Employees had championed a campaign across the 23 Local Government Areas against the plan by the then administration.
DAILY POST recalled that NULGE had threatened to call out its members for a strike if the government had gone ahead to remove the primary healthcare salary structure from the Local government.
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