President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has approved the payment of health workers whose salaries were withheld when they embarked on strike.
Minister of labour and employment, CHRIS NGIGE, disclosed this while speaking to journalists after a meeting with the president at the state house in Abuja.
The development comes months after BUHARI promised that the salary arrears of health workers would be cleared, following strike actions embarked upon by health workers.
He said that the wages, which were seized on the premise of the no-work, no pay-rule following strikes embarked upon by the Joint Health Workers Union, have been approved by the President to be released to the health workers on compassionate grounds.
Responding to the grievances by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the minister asserted that since July 2021, a total of N52.1 billion revitalization fund has so far been released to workers in the university system in consonance with an MOA signed in December 2020 and expects that members of ASUU would have been adequately informed about the Federal Government's efforts.
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