Doctors at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital (LAUTECHTH), under the aegis of Resident Doctors Association (ARD) Osogbo, yesterday protested the non-payment of their eight-month salary arrears.
They called on President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene before the situation got worse.
The placard-carrying protesters moved round major streets of Osogbo, the Osun State capital, singing solidarity songs.
Some of the placards read “President Buhari, please come to our aid”; “Enough is enough. Eight months and still counting, no salary”; “Declare the debt burden of our state now” ;”Even slaves deserve to be fed” ; “Doctors are human beings, let government pay our salaries,” among others.
The protesters lamented that they could no longer endure the hardship. They appealed to Governor Rauf Aregbesola to pay them.
The President of the association, Dr. Olalekan Ajayi, said: “Aregbesola should pay us our eight months salaries in full. We don’t want part payment. We don’t want deduction of our salaries because we are still being owed deductions from our salaries for November 2012/13.