Decisions we take today is the result of tomorrow – Bono Women’s Org to rotational nurses calling for their nine months alawa

The Bono Regional Women’s Organizer and a professional midwife, Hajia Fatima Bintu Abubakar, has admonished prospective and nursing training trainees to reflect on the decisions they made in the 2016 general elections by voting for the New Patriotic Party on the promise of giving them allowances.

The professional midwife made this comment in a solidarity statement to the rotational nurses who are demanding for the government to pay them of their nine months arrears through demonstrations.

”Today, rotation nurses are on the street to demonstrate against the Nana Addo led government’s failure to pay rotation nurses allowances.

These same nurses who voted for Akufu in 2016 are the same people cought in the web in 2023” she stated.

Hajia Fatima Abubakar, who seems worried for these rotational nurses advised them to be careful in the decisions they take for whatever decisions they take have a huge consequences on their future. ”It is therefore important to note, that, the decision we take today is the result of tomorrow and that tomorrow always determines our future and that of the unborn generation” she added.

Kindly read the full statement below;

Nursing is a noble and critical profession which is held in high esteem.

Nations across the globe are investing billions of their currencies into their health sectors by providing quality education for their citizens.

Here in Ghana, successive governments have invested hugely by providing infrustructure and given incentives such as allowances to students as a means to attracting the youth to go into the health sector.

This has been continued by successive governments and it has yielded fruitful result for the benefit of everyone living in Ghana.

In 2016, former president, John Daramani Mahama suggested that as part of our collective efforts to expand the health sector, his government will not be given students allowances but student loans so that money would be available for infrustructure. This, among other things made the people especially, student nurses voted JDM out of office in the 2016 general election.

The then opposition leader of the NPP, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufu reiterated to continue payment of student allowances just because he wanted power without looking into the negative effects of his action.

Today, rotation nurses are on the street to demonstrate against the Nana Addo led government’s failure to pay rotation nurses allowances.

These same nurses who voted for Akufu in 2016 are the same people cought in the web in 2023.

They have forgotten that the very ball they threw on the wall has bounced back to them.

It is therefore important to note, that, the decision we take today is the result of tomorrow and that tomorrow always determines our future and that of the unborn generation.

Even though, we sympathize with the rotation nurses but we also think that things will have been better if they had not voted Akufu Addo and his NPP into office

By Hajia Fatima Bintu Abubakar
Bono regional Women Organizer