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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Workers tackle psychiatric hospital boss over SSS invitation

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Workers tackle psychiatric hospital boss over SSS invitation
Mar 24th 2013, 23:00

Some members of the Senior Staff Association of Psychiatric Hospital, Uselu, Benin, Edo State, have blamed the institution's Chief Medical Director, Dr. Sunday Olotu, for their inability to honour an invitation by the State Security Service.

Legal Adviser to the union, Kelvin Okafor, in a statement on Sunday, alleged that the CMD refused to grant the association's chairman and secretary, Kennedy Oriakhi and Theophilus Osifo, respectively, written permission to honour the invitation.

The workers claimed that Olotu only gave verbal approval and declined a written permission, despite request sent to him by the union leaders.

They said, "Members of the union are law-abiding citizens without skeleton in their closets and are therefore prepared to honour the invitation, if only the management will issue them requisite written approvals to do so.

"It is therefore curious, suspicious and worthy of public outcry that the management of the hospital, is refusing or neglecting to issue the aforementioned members of the union the requisite approval to honour the security agency invitation in line with the public service rules.

Spokesman for the CMD, Mr. Efe Stewart, however denied the allegation, saying the hospital management did not receive any formal letter to that effect or any correspondence from the SSS inviting its workers.

Stewart said the union officials were mischief-makers, intent on making "things difficult for the management of hospital".

He added, "The issue is a union matter that has led to the national leadership of the Senior Staff Association of Universities, Teaching Hospitals, Research Institutes and Associated Associations constituting a new leadership of the association in the hospital. The two persons are not known to the management as leaders of the union in the hospital."

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