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LAGOS/DOCTORS Doctors in the service of Lagos State Government have again declared an indefinite strike action from today. The action followed the state government move to disrupt the doctors’ congress today and moves to arrest their chairman, Doctor OLUMUYIWA ODUSOTE. ODUSOTE said their congress which was held at the General Hospital in Ikeja was disrupted by the police on the order of the state government. He explained that members of the Medical Guild relocated to another location where the police also made attempt to arrest him and some other executive members. The Chairman of the Guild vowed that the strike will go on as long as the state government is not willing to resume genuine negotiation with the doctors. Correspondent SULAYMON ABDULKAREEM reports that the doctors recently suspended their three days warning strike to protest the non-implementation of their Consolidate Medical Salary Scale, CONMESS and over deduction of taxes from their salaries.