LAUTECH hasn’t sack any staff, says Governing Board

The Governing Council of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Osogbo has said that no staff of the hospital has been sacked.

The Board Chairman, Professor Oluwole Atoyebi stated this while appearing before the state House of Assembly over the proposed sack of some of its workers.

According to a statement by the Chairman, House Committee on Information and Strategy, Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, Afolabi said though there were illegal recruitment exercise in the hospital by the ousted management ousted the approved figure, saying, the board would review the issue and take decision on it.

The board chairman averred that there was an approval in 2012 to employed 302 staff, but 767 were employed; while 157, 62 snd 70 staffers were employed in 2013, 2014 and 2015 respectively without approval.

Noting that the board has not met to take decision on the excess staff and what to do with their cases, the board chairman, according to the statement, said it was a mere rumour that some of them have been sacked.

The statement quoted: “We have been hearing the rumour that the board has pencilled down those to be sacked, but the board has not met.

“What the people are shouting about is on the white paper on the staff audit released on 16th January which came to our attention two weeks ago that there were over recruitment of staff outside the approved number.

“We are just looking at the names, we want to know those employed in that year and know what to do with their case.

“Definitely, there is overstaff and there is a white paper that asked us to stream down the number.

“After meeting, we will make suggestion on how the excess staff can be useful somewhere else. Many of them have NCE, B.Sc in Education and this set of staff can be redeployed into schools where there is no teachers, but they are not needed in LAUTECH”, he said.

Professor Afolabi also said, in the course of reviewing the cases of the affected staffers, those that were employed as level two officer and indiscriminately promoted to level seven within one year would be critical examined an decided on.

The Speaker, Honourable Najeem Salaam urged the board to let the consideration of the matter has human face and report back, for a decision to be taken.

He said though, the lawmakers were not directly affected, but their intervention was predicated on the fact that they are the representatives of the people.