My Hippocratic brothers...I started a blog thread some few weeks back on this platform which generated a lot of reactions for weeks...If we all can remember the title of that post, CASUALIZATION OF DOCTORS in LAGOS STATE MAY BURY NMA...Im sure we can all remember. I wrote then having seen into the future..for the things of the spirit cannot be measured by designation, age, or political positions...For the holy scripture even attest that There were the children of Isacchar who have been given the wisdom of knowing the time and the season Perhaps some of us have this instinct within us...perhaps. Having just concluded this EDM...I could not help asking myself? How come we appeared to have been boxed into a corner and now had to be negotiating from the point of a great disadvantages? etc ..Different rhetoric pumping through my mind. Let the truth be told...I AM PROUD OF NMA...I AM PROUD OF BEING A DOCTOR!...I AM PROUD OF OVER 60% of doctors throughout THIS Federation that STOOD for what is JUST and for what they believed in. Our LOSS is not a peculiar one,FOR We were JUST unfortunate to HAVE LOST and LOST Gallantly we did! in trying to x-ray the struggle for the past 7weeks 6days, as a veteran.Here is my submission for our loss. (1). I still maintain that ours is an INSANE society whose leaders value no life of its citizenry, hence if over 200 Chibok girls and another 100 Borno boys can be watched to vanish one by one without FG blinking...WHO ARE WE AS DOCTORS before him!...If ASUU can be on strike for 5months and up till now shin shin they did not get...WHO ARE WE AS DOCTORS before him!...If Polytechnics can be on strike for almost a year and had to go back just on the word of the new minister of education, achieving NOTHING...WHO ARE WE AS DOCTORS before him!!!...IF Sanusi Lamido Sanusi can be sacked just like that...THEN to HELL WITH Residency Training Govt will say!... (2). Our democracy is not fully matured, hence the will of the electorates (or a unit of the electorates) is highly STILL subjugated!...hoping that one day we will get there! (3). As at present, the power at the centre is HIGHLY concentrated...who can withstand the MIGHT of the presidency who is ONLY bothered about nothing but 2015!!! (4). With the present composition of the Ministry of Health whom we directly get our benefits from...i.e. With the Perm Secretary- a staunch hater of doctors- We are bound to have challenges for now and of course JOH-esu his colleagues will seem to be using him! (5). Still xraying my tots on why we lost...With the unfortunate natural outbreak of Ebola which comes with it a GREAT sentiments from the GENERAL PUBLIC...it further boxed us into the cul-de-sac OF maintaining our image before the public. *************************************************The Big Question is would we have won ?????????????????????????????I BELIEVE NO we would not have won...Bc of these factors. Hmmm...as a VISIONARY who sees beyond today...I see a nation that is going through a phase and ultimately will get there ONE DAY! I see a nation that is being encumbered by lots of evil, malicious and mortally mindedness that they have forgotten that indeed there is a GOD (I say this out of seriousness). I see a nation turned upside down by inordinate ambition of men...I see a nation that care less about its Citizenry...These are all I see for now...But for the future I see the ENTIRE reversal of the OLD ORDER!...where everything will be based on EQUALITY and FAIRNESS...where the dignity of every human labour will be adequately rewarded! I believe we will get there, for I have seen from the mountain top beyond the river...I will get there, you will get there and Nigeria will get there...I refuse to give up on Her, I will nurture her and I will watch this dream come True...While the change happens...I beg of us to RESTRATEGIZE as an individual....FOR ThERE WILL Definitely BE A CHANGE!!!. If However you want to stay and do Medicine...please do it as a bussiness, but with human face...remember #NoMoreCorridorConsultation. If you want to do Masters, Msc etc...do it...But NEVER allow your ego to diminish...never give up to defeat, never believe JOH-esuites are better...they are just lucky to have their people in places that matter FOR NOW...because Nigeria has not yet built its institution where things we run irrespective of who you know or who is calling the shots!...Let us hope that government keeps his promise to RECALL the letter of the suspension and reinstate the residents and probably meet SOME of our 24point demands...BUT IF and NOTHING of Such happens...Event will unfold and actions shall be met with reactions (but what the reaction will be TIme will TELL). BUT WHATEVER MAY...THE LION SHALL STill Remain the KiNG of THE JUNgLE!!! I rest my case for now to take the next flight back to join my family, restrategize and PLAN my LIFE! Peter Ogunnubi (JP). A once jobfull but now jobless Lagos NMA Deputy Secretary.
Posted on: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 06:02:55 +0000
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