Staff of the National Agency for Food Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Friday embarked on indefinite strike to demand implemenation of an agreement on imporved weklfare reached with management in 2013.
The staff who are members of the Medical and Health Workers Union chapter in the organisation, are also demanding the immediate retirement of the agency’s acting Director General, Mrs Yetunde Oni, who they claim has attained the statutory retirement age of 60 years.
Addressing members, Idu Isua, Vice Chairman of the union, said the union signed an agreement with the management and the Minister of Health to review its welfare package in 2013 which has not been implemented since.
“When we came on board as union in 2013, we took a look at the allowances of staff and discovered it was low compared with other agencies that we enjoy same salary scale with.
“We resolved that funds be drawn from our Internally Generated Revenue to finance the upward reviewed package of staff but to our greatest surprise, nothing was done since then.”
On the acting director-general’s continued leadership of the agency, Isua said Mrs Oni was due for retirement with effect from September 21 having attained 60 years of age.
“She was 60 years yesterday (Sept. 21, 2017); she must go; these are our grievances.”
The acting DG NAFDAC is currently out of the country and could not be reached for comments.
