WE NEED SAFETY TO SAVE OTHERS; Responsibility engulfs leadership, leadership stays inseparable with responsibility by Olabanji Joel

A Nurse has been kidnapped again and a ransom of five million naira (#5m) has been requested for by the kidnappers and nurses around are coming together to assist but what is our National NANNM doing about it and what is his state and unit NANNM doing about it?



I started with the issue of the nurse who has just been kidnapped because it is what has prompted me to pick up my pen again. The issue of insecurity in this country has left no sector untouched but this shouldn't make our leaders insensitive to various kidnap report about nurses.

It is important to state that we need SAFETY to SAVE others as nurses, can we save others when our safety is threatened? This has been going on for a while now and a statement from our national NANNM president has not been seen circulating round the media, so bad!

Our NANNM national executives on so many occasions has shown their carefree attitude on several plight of nurses and issues raised by nurses, what is the leadership of NANNM doing about taking responsibilities to help solve the issues faced by many nurses and nursing in the country?

Back to the issue of insecurity, what has NANNM done to help nurses campaign/bargain for adequate security? By now we should have our NANNM executives hold a conference to address kidnapping and assault meted out to various nurses at all areas, we should have NANNM call on the government to promptly attend to the insecurity ravaging the country, in short, NANNM can threaten to go on strike if any nurse get kidnapped again within the country. Yes! NANNM is the association meant to protect all nurses including our interests, we have the power to shake the country as the largest workforce in the health care industry.

Now, #5m has been requested for by the kidnappers before setting free the kidnapped victim, with the income of nurses in this country, how many nurses can unchartered pay the money, maybe the nursing leaders at various sectors and our honourable NANNM executives. Sincerely, this is the time we need NANNM to act, this nurse in the kidnappers den must not be killed, #5m is something small for the NANNM executives to remove from the COD which has been collected over the year(s), this is a person's life and ensuring his safety should be the concern of all now.

The present tenure is almost over without a remarkable achievement, they have been known as COD collectors, responsibility has been lost in their form of leadership and it has made the tenure a fruitless one, we hope others who will take up the leadership position put the responsibility attached to the positions higher than the honour and money attached to it. They should know the honour carried by a position is lost when the occupant of the seat fails, praise and honour is for the person who has acquired them through adequate discharge of duty with successes visible to blind to see and loud even for the deaf to hear.

Conclusively, all our leaders in Nursing at various levels and locations should know we are where we are today because of their yesterday's inputs, where we will be tomorrow rest on the input they make today and what they achieve will determine if they will be rightly honoured or dishonoured.

Olabanji Joel
A Nurse, Writer and Socialist

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