Health workers mobilise for showdown with FG over 13-yr salary adjustment delay.
By Chioma Obinna The Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, has begun mobilising health workers nationwide for possible industrial action over the Federal Government’s failure to implement the adjustment of the Consolidated Health Salary Structure, CONHESS, a demand that has remained unresolved for about 13 years.
This was part of the resolutions reached at an emergency expanded National Executive Council, NEC, virtual meeting held on Thursday, October 29, 2026, attended by its affiliates and organs at federal and state levels.
In a resolution jointly signed by the JOHESU National Chairman, Comrade Kabiru Minjibir, and National Secretary, Comrade Martin Egbanubi, JOHESU said the season for uninterrupted implementation of the CONHESS adjustment was now or never, warning that it would not accept threats from what it described as meddlesome interlopers over the welfare and future of health workers.
The union recalled that President Bola Tinubu had, on June 5, 2023, promised to actualise the adjustment while appealing to JOHESU to suspend its strike after assuming office. It also recalled that the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare had, on the same date, forwarded the 2021 High Level Body Technical Committee Report on the adjustment to the Budget Office of the Federation, the secretariat of the Presidential Committee on Salaries, PCS. JOHESU accused the government of allowing the process to stall behind the inability of the PCS to meet, warning that any further attempt to use the committee’s failure to act as an excuse would be met with resistance. The union commended the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, for taking decisive steps towards securing the adjustment, describing it as the oldest demand in organised labour history.
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