Some angry unemployed nurses joined the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Saturday at their Unity Walk in the Upper East regional capital of Bolgatanga.

According to some section of the protesters, they had come to the former President John Dramani Mahama to save their future from doom under the current government.

The banner boldly reads: “You employed bonded nurses but Nana wants to make us zoom nurses” and “You were honest to us but Nana deceived us and failed to pay us our allowance”.

Dressed in nursing uniforms and showing newsmen their nursing identity cards to prove they were not masqueraders, they held the banner as they walked alongside hundreds of NDC supporters through the streets and highways of  Bolgatanga.

“We were the nurses who completed in 2016, registered nurses, diploma of course. We finished our national service in 2017. In March, 2018, we were due for posting, only to be told by government that we would not be employed but we would be put under the Youth Employment Agency,” fumed one of the unemployed nurses, Osman Alale.

Asked why they decided to put in an appearance at the NDC Unity Walk, he said with a tone of frustration: “We are here because Mahama was realistic to us by telling us that he would not be able to pay allowances, that he would not be able to post non-bonded nurses. But in our case, we were bonded, and we thought that the President could have continued the process. Since school resumed, no student has received allowance. Even what they are even paying is not allowance. You can do your checks.”

Similar complaints came up from some student nurses who, as they moved with a milling crowd of NDC supporters singing ‘2020 we go show Nana o’ among other songs, spoke to journalists.

“Government is not able to pay us our 2018 allowance. I can say government is owing 48 months allowance. We saw it necessary to join this Unity Walk to draw attention to our suffering,” Emmanuel Dawani protested.