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| Comrade Kabiru Mustapha (r) |
SSAUTHRIAI, JUTH branch
holds delegates conference
By Dickson Gupiya
March 21, 2019
The Senior Staff Association of Universities, Teaching
Hospitals, Research Institutes and Associates Institutions (SSAUTHRIA) Jos
University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) branch holds its Quadrennial General
meeting of Delegates conference today.
In his
address, Chairman of the JUTH branch of the Association comrade Kabiru Mustapha
welcomed delegates to the conference. He stated that JUTH branch of the
Association was in comatose for fifteen years before it was revamped in
November 2013 with the support of the former Chief medical Director of JUTH,
Dr. Ishaya Pam
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| Dr. Ishaya Pam |
Mustapha
enumerated some of the aims and objectives of the Association to include
providing benefit and assistance to its members and also dedicated to the
betterment of the social and economic welfare of staff with dialogue and
negotiation in calm and peaceful atmosphere.
The chairman
said that in other to achieve the said aims, the Association has worked as
partners in progress with the management of JUTH stressing that as it is today,
members are proud to say that the Association is the most vibrant in the
institution in spite of confrontations and rift by other sister unions.
He enumerated some of the achievements of the Association between
November 2014 and now to include;
Organizing the first symposium
lecture in the hospital on conflict management where a J.T.F. Commandant
delivered lecture on security/ protection of life and property, reversal of
wrong interpretation of Public Civil Service Rule on headship which affected
three of the members, Store Catering and Audit, reversal of three year policy of
promotion for junior cadres and facilitated in regulation of
month-month/APIN staff.
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| A cross section of delegates at the conference |
Other achievements according to Comrade
Mustapha are facilitating the absorption of fourteen members in APIN who were
wrongly omitted and thirteen of them are members of the Association, obtained
court injunction that restrained the management from implementing
no-work-no-pay during JOHESU Aligator bite strike, regularization of members on
same scale promotion with effect from January 1, 2019 among other numerous
achievements
The occasion was declared open by the
Chief Medical Director (CMD) of JUTH, Professor Edmond Bwanwat who was ably
represented by the Director of Administration of the institution, Mr Bitrus Ali.
In his goodwill message, the former CMD of
JUTH, Dr. Ishaya Pam extolled the virtues of Mustapha and the efforts he has made
towards uplifting the Association.
Pam also said that he was proud of
the association and hoped it would always seek to sort out issues outside court
because according to him, “it’s always good to engage in dialogue”.
High
point of the conference would be the election and swearing in of new Exco
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