The Coordinating Minister of Fitness and Social Welfare, Prof Muhammad Pate, has petitioned the Nationwide Safety Helper, Nuhu Ribadu, and the Inspector-Basic of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to rescue Kaduna-based Dr Ganiyat Popoola, who was once abducted extreme December and has been within the abductors’ den for almost 8 months.
Popoola, a registrar within the Section of Ophthalmology on the Nationwide Sight Centre, Kaduna Climate, was once kidnapped on December 27, 2023, along side her husband, Nurudeen Popool, who’s a Squadron chief, and her nephew, Folaranmi Abdul-Mugniy, who remains with them.
Upcoming a number of negotiations with the abductors, the husband was once excepted on March 8, 2024, however the physician and Abdul-Mugniy weren’t excepted.
It was once additionally amassed that because the incident, the kidnappers had referred to as severally at will and every so often to permit some crowd participants to talk with the captives, they usually have been spoken to extreme on Wednesday, July 24, 2024, to end up that the physician and the nephew have been nonetheless alive.
The Nigerian Affiliation of Resident Docs has again and again clamoured for P opoola’s let fall, with chapters of the affiliation retaining non violent protests throughout other states and the Federal Capital Field, Abuja, on Monday.
The NARD threatened to embark on a national accident if Popoola was once no longer excepted by way of August 26.
In a letter dated August 12, the fitness minister, Pate, sought the intervention of the NSA, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu; and the IG, Kayode Egbetokun, to rescue the kidnapped clinical physician.
The letter was once titled ‘RE: Kidnap of Resident Doctor at the National Eye Centre, Kaduna: A need for urgent intervention to avert industrial disharmony’.
The minister stated, “The Federal Ministry of Fitness and Social Welfare is in receipt of a letter from the Nigerian Affiliation of Resident Docs Ref.negative.NARD/SG/2023-2024/290724/788, dated twenty ninth July 2024 (novel connected) at the above topic.
“Within the letter below reference, the affiliation knowledgeable of the kidnapping of certainly one of their participants, Dr. Ganiyat Olawole Popoola, a Senior Registrar within the Section of Ophthalmology on the Nationwide Sight Support Centre, Kaduna and her nephew over seven months in the past (December, 2023) and the sufferers have remained within the custody of the abductors to life.
“In view of the above, the ministry is soliciting for your pressing intervention no longer best to avoid wasting the lives of the abducted sufferers but in addition to avert commercial disharmony within the fitness sector.
“While anticipating your prompt action, please accept the warm regards of the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare.”