Sodiq Adekunle, Osogbo
Osun State House of Assembly has re-echoed its directive issued on the Governning Council of state-owned tertiary institutions to suspend the sacking of its teaching and non-teaching staff until a decision is taken on it by the house.
The Speaker of the Assembly, Honourable Najeem Salaam stated this through his deputy, Akintunde Adegboye at a parliamentary session on Monday.
This is just as the Assembly set up four adhoc committees to look critically into the files of the affected staff and investigate their issues, with a view to ensuring justice in the matter.
Osun State Polytechnic Iree, Colleges of Technology, Esa-Oke; and Colleges of Education in Ila-Orangun and Ilesa respectively have sacked about 204 teaching and non-teaching staff.
The managements of the institutions identified redundancy in qualifications, academic decline, extortion, and misconduct among others as some of the reasons for the disengagement of the staff members.
Following series of petitions and complaints, the state Assembly directed the management of the institutions to bring the files of the affected staff for perusal, with a view to ensuring that they were not unjustifiable disengaged.
Deliberating on the modalities to be adopted in the investigation on Monday, Adegboye informed members that instead of 72 staff sacked in NCE, Ila, only 39 files were produced, wondering why the number suddenly reduce.
He said, there was the need for the Assembly to ask question on the rationale behind the reduction in number, saying, "we need to ask why the number has reduced, is it that those people whose files are not with us have been reabsolve into the system".
Speaking one after the other, Honourable Rasheed Afolabi, Kamardeen Akanbi, Olatunbosun Oyintiloye and Leke Ogunsola among others suggested that four adhoc committee should be set up to make the investigation into the matter faster.
They called on the Assembly to look critically into the matter, with a view to ensuring that the issue was not a matter of witchunting of staff.
Written by NEWSTRAWL ONLINE UPDATE
Sodiq Oyeleke is a Media, Human Resources, Project Management and Public Relations Practitioner
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