Scores of trainee nurses and midwives
on Thursday morning poured out onto the streets of Accra to express their anger
with government for refusing to pay allowances they said were due
them.The demonstration was also to advocate for the employment for all
qualified nurses and midwives as the aggrieved nurses complained that the
government has failed to create job opportunities for them.
The
protesting nurses and midwives trainees said the National Democratic Congress
(NDC) government risked losing their votes if it did not show any commitment to
addressing the pertinent issues affecting them. The nurses who had tied red
bands on their wrists, heads, some around their arms marched through the streets
of the city chanting war songs.
They marched from the Obra spot at the
Kwame Nkrumah Circle through some principal streets of Accra and converged on
the Hearts Park to present their petition to government.
Some of them
were holding placards with inscriptions such as; “An hungry nurse will snatch
Mahama from his wife”, “No allawa, no vote”, “Mr. President, just the allawa”
and “Sir Mahama, where is our paper, we deserve better”.
One protesting
trainees said to Citi News, “our allowances have been seized by the government.
the government has refused to give us our allowances which I will say is our
right. We need to get these allowances.”
“Me and my colleagues, we have
decided that in the 2016 elections, we are not going to vote. It is very
painful, for us to work without getting anything,” another student
lamented.
source: Citifmonline |
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