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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