Nigeria born ‘militant’ junior doctor, Kayode Oki, who allegedly pushed for a series of chaotic British National Health Service (NHS) strikes, was last Friday sensationally booted off his union’s council after tweets of him claiming that ‘we live in a white supremacist patriarchy’ caused fury.
According to a report by DailyMail UK, Kayode Oki sat on the British Medical Association’s (BMA) ruling council, which has spent months plotting walkouts that have brought the ailing health service to a standstill in pursuit of a 35 per cent pay rise.
The BMA told DailyMail UK that Dr. Oki had been “removed from taking part in any and all BMA business with immediate effect.”
As well as attacking fellow medics for there “willingness to prop up white supremacist rhetorics” on Twitter, he claimed those from Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds “are sometimes the biggest purporters of white supremacy.”
Dr. Oki, who is a foundation-year-one junior doctor, also said white women “scare me” in tweets unearthed from 2021.
He also tweeted that he refused to “listen to podcasts or read books by white men”, that “racism is a rite of passage for white teens” and – using “cis-het”, a description of a heterosexual person who identifies with their birth gender – he added that “we are existing under’ a ‘cis-het white patriarchy.”
Oki, who until last Friday was a voting member of the 69-strong BMA council, told The Sun UK: “I am disappointed that these comments, which are my personal views, are being taken without the context such complex subject areas deserve.”
DailyMail UK approached Dr. Oki through the BMA. A BMA spokesperson said: “Dr. Oki has been removed from taking part in any and all BMA business with immediate effect and the BMA will be undertaking an external independent investigation.”
His comments provoked fury among Tory Members of Parliament (MPs). The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party.
Conservative MP Ben Bradley told DailyMail UK: “This is total nonsense and shows just how divisive the BMA ruling council really is.
If he wants to understand the “cis-het white patriarchy” he should talk to the blokes of Mansfield who’ve had to graft their whole lives to keep the light on for others.”
He added: “The BMA leadership should stop spouting radical comments like these, stop making everything about race and get on with putting an end to the strikes.”
It comes after MailOnline revealed this week that another medical student who fervently pushed for NHS strikes missed last week’s four-day walkout – because she was recovering from private liposuction.
Eilidh Garrett has spent months cheering on junior doctors through her influential social media presence and attacked the government for its lack of ‘moral decency’, conduct during strike talks and refusal to budge on pay.
The 26-year-old has yet to qualify as a junior doctor, but believes they deserve more than a 35 per cent pay rise – the huge sum being demanded by the BMA.
She has also previously told her followers she only wanted to become a doctor for the money.
But unlike Dr. Oki, Miss Garrett is a medical student, meaning she cannot legally take industrial action because she does not hold a contract with the NHS.
Yet she has been hugely vocal in promoting the walkouts, racking up millions of views on her pro-strike Twitter posts and attending a previous picket line in support.
Dr. Oki, who studied at the University of Dundee, is now a foundation-year-one doctor in South Thames in London.
Meanwhile, friends of Oki led by Samantha Gordon started have started a petition tagged “Support Dr. Kayode Oki – BMA Reverse the suspension, stop the investigation.”
So, far 1, 883 have signed the petition, which requires 2,500 to get attention.
It reads: “Dr. Kayode Oki has been an active member of the doctors union, the British Medical Association (BMA) and a member of its Council for two years. Two days ago The Daily Mail and The Sun published old tweets by Dr. Oki rightly calling out systemic and structural racism in medicine and British society in an effort to undermine the junior doctors strikes. But instead of supporting him, the BMA have suspended him and launched an investigation into his views. We are signing this petition calling on the BMA to lift the suspension of Dr. Oki, stop the investigation and instead censure The Daily Mail and The Sun for their disgraceful attacks on the integrity of our junior doctors.”
BMA fires Oki over comments on ‘white supremacist patriarchy’ | The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News
[ad_1]
Nigeria born ‘militant’ junior doctor, Kayode Oki, who allegedly pushed for a series of chaotic British National Health Service (NHS) strikes, was last Friday sensationally booted off his union’s council after tweets of him claiming that ‘we live in a white supremacist patriarchy’ caused fury.
According to a report by DailyMail UK, Kayode Oki sat on the British Medical Association’s (BMA) ruling council, which has spent months plotting walkouts that have brought the ailing health service to a standstill in pursuit of a 35 per cent pay rise.
The BMA told DailyMail UK that Dr. Oki had been “removed from taking part in any and all BMA business with immediate effect.”
As well as attacking fellow medics for there “willingness to prop up white supremacist rhetorics” on Twitter, he claimed those from Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds “are sometimes the biggest purporters of white supremacy.”
Dr. Oki, who is a foundation-year-one junior doctor, also said white women “scare me” in tweets unearthed from 2021.
He also tweeted that he refused to “listen to podcasts or read books by white men”, that “racism is a rite of passage for white teens” and – using “cis-het”, a description of a heterosexual person who identifies with their birth gender – he added that “we are existing under’ a ‘cis-het white patriarchy.”
Oki, who until last Friday was a voting member of the 69-strong BMA council, told The Sun UK: “I am disappointed that these comments, which are my personal views, are being taken without the context such complex subject areas deserve.”
DailyMail UK approached Dr. Oki through the BMA. A BMA spokesperson said: “Dr. Oki has been removed from taking part in any and all BMA business with immediate effect and the BMA will be undertaking an external independent investigation.”
His comments provoked fury among Tory Members of Parliament (MPs). The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party.
Conservative MP Ben Bradley told DailyMail UK: “This is total nonsense and shows just how divisive the BMA ruling council really is.
If he wants to understand the “cis-het white patriarchy” he should talk to the blokes of Mansfield who’ve had to graft their whole lives to keep the light on for others.”
He added: “The BMA leadership should stop spouting radical comments like these, stop making everything about race and get on with putting an end to the strikes.”
It comes after MailOnline revealed this week that another medical student who fervently pushed for NHS strikes missed last week’s four-day walkout – because she was recovering from private liposuction.
Eilidh Garrett has spent months cheering on junior doctors through her influential social media presence and attacked the government for its lack of ‘moral decency’, conduct during strike talks and refusal to budge on pay.
The 26-year-old has yet to qualify as a junior doctor, but believes they deserve more than a 35 per cent pay rise – the huge sum being demanded by the BMA.
She has also previously told her followers she only wanted to become a doctor for the money.
But unlike Dr. Oki, Miss Garrett is a medical student, meaning she cannot legally take industrial action because she does not hold a contract with the NHS.
Yet she has been hugely vocal in promoting the walkouts, racking up millions of views on her pro-strike Twitter posts and attending a previous picket line in support.
Dr. Oki, who studied at the University of Dundee, is now a foundation-year-one doctor in South Thames in London.
Meanwhile, friends of Oki led by Samantha Gordon started have started a petition tagged “Support Dr. Kayode Oki – BMA Reverse the suspension, stop the investigation.”
So, far 1, 883 have signed the petition, which requires 2,500 to get attention.
It reads: “Dr. Kayode Oki has been an active member of the doctors union, the British Medical Association (BMA) and a member of its Council for two years. Two days ago The Daily Mail and The Sun published old tweets by Dr. Oki rightly calling out systemic and structural racism in medicine and British society in an effort to undermine the junior doctors strikes. But instead of supporting him, the BMA have suspended him and launched an investigation into his views. We are signing this petition calling on the BMA to lift the suspension of Dr. Oki, stop the investigation and instead censure The Daily Mail and The Sun for their disgraceful attacks on the integrity of our junior doctors.”
[ad_2]
Source link