{"id":466051,"date":"2018-02-20T21:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T21:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/20\/ndc-sympathizes-with-picketing-nurses-murtala-mohammed\/"},"modified":"2018-02-20T21:00:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T21:00:30","slug":"ndc-sympathizes-with-picketing-nurses-murtala-mohammed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/20\/ndc-sympathizes-with-picketing-nurses-murtala-mohammed\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC sympathizes with picketing nurses \u2013 Murtala Mohammed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Tuesday, 20 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>radiogold905.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-20<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/72957737.295.jpg\" alt=\"Star Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed\" title=\"Star Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed\" width=\"295\" height=\"169\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Murtala Ibrahim Mohammed, former Deputy Minister of Trade<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1519160430_911_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Former Deputy Minister of Trade, Murtala Ibrahim Mohammed on behalf of the opposition the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has sympathized with the situation of some unposted nurses who are picketing at the Health Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>At least 200 graduate nurses have since yesterday besieged the premises of the Ministry of Health to demand posting to work in health facilities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The graduates said several appeals to the Ministry for employment after they completed school in 2016, have not yielded results.<\/p>\n<p>They said they have been idling at home for the past two years after successfully leaving school and completing their mandatory national service.<\/p>\n<p>Picketing at the Health Ministry to demand employment has become a common phenomenon for various health professionals in the country especially in the last one year.<\/p>\n<p>In the run- up to the 2016 general elections, the restoration or otherwise of nurses trainee allowances became a topical debate with the then opposition leader (now president), Nana Akufo-Addo bemoaning the cancellation of the nurses allowance, describing the John Mahama administration as insensitive to the plight of nurses.<\/p>\n<p>The NPP upon assumption of power has since restored the allowances which is currently in arrears for almost three months.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to host of the Gold Power Drive, Samuel Eshun, the former Minister of Trade, Murtala Ibrihim Mohammed, insisted the unposted nurses were hoodwinked by the NPP government to vote them in the 2016 elections after they vehemently kicked against the cancellation of the nurses trainee allowance by the NDC government.<\/p>\n<p>Even though Mr. Murtala Mohammed shares in the pain of the nurses, he is of the view that they deserve the treatment they are getting from the government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn another breath, I will tell them to shut up and enjoy their ride. This were the same nurses who said they were comfortable with the so-called promise to restore the allowances and when we pointed out that they were going to suffer the consequences, they felt that the peanut thrown out to them  was enough and therefore they couldn\u2019t bother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow irrational could it be that you are given allowances yet when you complete school you don\u2019t have a job? The NDC was not taken away the allowances. The NDC was replacing it with a kind of a loan scheme that more students could benefit but they said no they want the allowances\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 62 updated by: 62 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Tuesday, 20 February 2018 Source: radiogold905.com 2018-02-20 Murtala Ibrahim Mohammed, former Deputy Minister of Trade Former Deputy Minister of Trade, Murtala Ibrahim Mohammed on behalf of the opposition the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has sympathized with the situation of some unposted nurses who are picketing at the Health Ministry. 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