..urges leaders to serve diligently without compromise
By Precious Oham
Chairman, National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, NANNM, Ekiti State Council, Comrade Kunle Oni, has tasked elected unit executives of the union to be ready to serve.
He made the statement at the one-day Induction Training of Unit Executives of the union, in Ado-Ekiti, on Wednesday.
Comrade Oni charged the unit executives to discharge their duties diligently while reiterating his commitment to the welfare of members of the union.
According to him, the Ekiti State government have started showing commitment to the welfare of nurses and midwives in the state by paying some outstanding arrears and salaries.
“As elected officers in your various units, it is mandatory we bring ourselves together in moments like this. I want to believe that non of us were forced to serve.
“We must be ready to serve. We should not compare ourselves with other members. The service which we are rendering may not be commensurate but we must be ready to serve.
“We promised to engage government on the welfare of our nurses. It is on record that the state government is showing commitment of paying some arrears and salaries and this is as a result of our engagements.”
Meanwhile, the Resource Speaker and a former Director, Primary Healthcare Development Agency in Ekiti State, Comrade Adeniyi Olugbenga, spoke on ‘Leadership, Stewardship and Followers Fate in Unionism Today.’
Olugbenga, who defined leadership as a process of social influence which maximises the ideas of others towards achieving a goal encouraged them to always do more as unionist and steward leaders.
One of the participants and Chairperson of NANNM, Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Comrade Monde Comfort commended the leadership of the union for putting up such training adding that they will go back to their various units to put it into practice.
