Olúwatóbi
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We respectfully seek your intervention and public advocacy concerning the prolonged non-payment of interns working at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex (OAUTHC). For the past eleven months, interns have rendered uninterrupted clinical services at OAUTHC. However, only six months’ salary has been paid, and even that was not in full. To date, our December salary remains unpaid, alongside several months of outstanding arrears. Despite this situation, interns are still being mandated to report for duty. Although an industrial action is currently ongoing, interns have been specifically instructed to continue working without pay. Repeated pleas, formal complaints, and peaceful protests have yielded no meaningful resolution. The consistent explanation given by hospital management is that payment has not been released from Abuja. This explanation, however, is misleading. Unlike other staff whose salaries are federally funded, interns’ remuneration is paid directly by the hospital management, not from Abuja. Notably, other hospital staff have continued to receive their salaries, while interns remain unpaid. This situation has placed immense financial, emotional, and psychological strain on young healthcare professionals who are expected to work under demanding conditions without compensation. It raises serious concerns about labour rights, workplace ethics, and the welfare of medical interns in Nigeria. We humbly appeal to Arise TV investigate this matter and lend its voice to our plight, so that the appropriate authorities can be held accountable and justice can be served. Thank you for your commitment to truth, accountability, and the protection of vulnerable workers. Mayowa
These names are basically mandatory in Afrobeats lyrics.😅🤝
@RavenX09 @oauthcofficial calling our professional salary a 'stipend' is dismissive, especially when individuals are owed over ₦600k. If funds were released through October 2025, why are our first three months still unpaid? consistent underpayment of ₦203k vs the statutory ₦220k. We deserve full pay
@oauthcofficial We're just understanding the 'Complex' in your name,,because why is this hospital trying to change the narrative. What do you mean by 'Consistently Communicated' @JAOOKENIYI has never for once address the interns. I remember him even threatening us when we complained.
The funny thing about this OAUTHC of an institution is that they have not paid my set finished. For a year, my money is still hanging in that sorry institution. They didn’t pay our batch fully; they paid the next batch of the same set fully. Why didn’t they pay us? They said one budget has not been implemented or something. For a year, I am still waiting for my money to drop. Money that I worked “hard” for. Yet, they took in interns, didn’t pay them. Now you want to take interns again. @Fmohnigeria @muhammadpate, this is what interns taken in by @oauthcofficial are experiencing. Kindly look into it.
