Workers of the Emergency Medical Services staged a protest on Tuesday, 6th November in Port Harcourt over non payment of 15 months salary.
The communications officers for the Emergency Medical Services, Fortune Ehule who led other staff on the protest told newsmen that they have not been on salary for the last 7 years.
She said, “We were employed 7 years ago and they told us they were going to enshrine us into the mainstream of the Rivers State Civil Service, until now, nothing has happened. Yet, we salvage lives. We were there in the Ebola crisis, we were there in the lassa fever crisis, we were there during the monkey pox incident. We were there at the forefront to save lives and yet, we’ve not been paid salaries for the past 1 year and 3 months.
We wrote a letter to the commissioner of health that necessitated him calling us for a meeting. In that meeting, he got angry. He stomped out on us and said we were being very insulting to him.
“We have gone again to see him and the next thing he told us in that very meeting was that oil refund had not come, the governor can not release any money for our salary”.
The protesters who displayed various placards called on the Rivers State Government fulfil its promises by paying them their salary.
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