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The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), Rivers State Council, has held her 9th Quadrennial Delegates Conference, as well as the election of a new state council to take over from the comrade Regina Kuru-led executive.
Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Rivers State chapter, Comr. Beatrice Itubo, who was also the chairman of the occasion charged leaders to be proactive while in service in order to leave a lasting legacy, adding that the reason representatives of almost all the trade unions in the state attended comr. Kuru’s valedictory speech was due to her commitment to service.
The NLC chairman promised to continue the struggle for better welfare for workers, especially for the holistic implementation of the minimum wage.
While rendering her account of stewardship, Comr. Regina Kuru said that her administration unified nurses in the state and brought them to work together as one.
She also ensured that the union’s secretariat building, which was at DPC level in 2011 when she commenced her first tenure, was ninety percent completed by the end of her tenure with the thirty percent check-up dues, adding that none of the nurses were taxed to build the structure.
Comr. Kuru also charged the new executives to continue from where she stopped, advising them to go beyond what she achieved in order to advance the cause of nurses in the state.
The new state chairman of NANNM, comr. Adaku Bright Nwuozu, thanked the nurses for their support and confidence in her, adding that she will do her best to ensure that nurses’ welfare in the state is not undermined
The chairman praised the outgone chairman, comr Kuru, for her contributions and efforts to give nurses in the state a sense of belonging, promising that she will continue from where she stopped.
“Comr. Kuru is a mother indeed, very caring and hard working. My Nurses and I wishes her success in all her endeavour,” Nwuozu said
The returning officer of the election was David Ezugwu, deputy general secretary NANNM, while members of various trade unions were present, including the vice chairman of Nigeria Medical Association, chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress, director of nursing services, Mrs Ibiobeleari Sokari.
