The association, in a statement on Saturday signed by its
president, Dr Victor Makanjuola and the secretary-general, Dr Yemi R. Raji,
said the bill being proposed by the House of Representatives was discriminatory
and not in the interest of the people.
It stated that while passion and concern for the health of
Nigerians demonstrated by Abiodun Ganiyu Johnson in proposing the bill as
panacea for physician brain drain is commendable, the bill was, however,
“misdirected, ill-informed and poorly thought through.”
The association said the bill had a possible effect of doing
the exact opposite – aggravating the exodus – which it has been working with
the executive arm of government to mitigate.