Stop doctors’ abduction, NMA urges Buhari (Punch)

This appeal, he said, became imperative because the continued abduction of doctors was capable of hampering health care delivery in the country.

In March 2019, two medical doctors, Sunday Oduniya and Audu Sule, were kidnapped in Taraba State and despite the payment of N12.3m ransom, their abductors had refused to free them.

On Friday, the Cross-River State chapter of the NMA in a statement signed by its chairman, Dr Agam Ayuk, and the secretary, Dr Ezoke Epoke, announced that it had embarked on an indefinite strike over the kidnapping of one of its members, Dr Inyama Marcus, on July 18, 2019. Read more