Igbobi appeals against dismissal

Sixteen dismissed members of staff of the
National Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi,
Lagos have appealed to the management
of the hospital to reconsider their dismissal
from work.
The sacking of the workers took place 13
years ago.

The workers, in a statement obtained by
our correspondent on Tuesday, called on
the hospital management, particularly its
Chief Medical Director, to launch a fresh
investigation into the circumstances that
led to their dismissal.

They alleged that the then management of
the hospital indiscriminately fired them
from the organisation.

The statement read, "We appeal to the
board to intervene in our matter. Our
sacking from service without consent
under the guise of an assault to the
medical director, an offence we did not
commit, was indiscriminate.

"It is difficult for a member of staff to
serve for over 31 years and when just at
the point of retirement, to be thrown out
for misconduct never recorded for about
two decades of being in service. We are
calling on the present management to use
their good offices to reverse the ills we
have been made to go through in the past
12 years and re-instate us to our various
offices."

Meanwhile, a representative of the
dismissed officials, Mrs. Modupe Oreniyi,
said their sacking took place after workers
under the aegis of the Non-Academic Staff
Union of Education and Association
Institutions embarked on a protest.
Oreniyi said the action contravened the
civil service rule, which empowered
aggrieved workers to respond to any
allegation levelled against them.

Also, among other efforts, a former
governor of the state, Lateef Jakande, in
2004 wrote a letter of appeal to the then
Assistant Director of the hospital, Dr. Wahab
Yinusa,
calling for a review of the process
that led to the sacking of the workers.

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