Jos University Teaching Hospital Security Personnel, Cleaners And Gardeners Shutdown Service Over 17 Months Non Payment Of Salary(See Photos Inside)

Yakubu Busari

The Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) Security personnel, Cleaners, Gardiners on Friday shutdown to paralyzed service delivery within the referral hospital over nonpayment of their seventeen months’ salaries.

The Spokesman of the security, Comrade Ondona Alexander Albert who said he lost his immediate younger one who died while on duty, lamented that the management refused to attend to them as he said they have been bringing flimsy excuses that the family most provide the deceased death certificate,even as he said that he died at the same hospital he worked when he met his waterloo.

According to him, “we started working with JUTH, our conditions of service became worst sometimes in November, 2016 when we began to experience challenges of half payment and they kept telling us that federal government has not released money for to offset their salary payment.

The protesters complained that the since the APC came on board, their members have continued to suffer untold hardship even as spent Christmas festivities without food and their children have been dropped out of schools .

He said, however, the management paid their internal security but refused to pay them their seventeen months’ salary, as he said JUTH told that federal government didn’t make provision to accommodate them who are cleaners, security personnel and Gardeners.

Mr Henry Chomo raised alarm that the management of JUTH have turned deaf ears to the plight of vulnerable cleaners who work hard to keep the hospital clean , ”we all assembly here to protest the non-payment of our salary which is now 17 months’ salaries arrears.

The protesters chanting, no pay, no work, no money, no work .We want JUTH to clear us our seventeen months’ salary .We are helpless and dying under Buhari regime.

They said most of their colleagues died on their duty post but the Management remains adamant to their request, we spoke to our contractors, they explained to us that they are yet to be paid.

“We are withdrawing our service until the management pays us the 17 months’ salaries; the hospital is now stinks with decomposed dead bodies.”

In an effort to speak with the Head of Information, she said no comment when our correspondent was in her office.