SAPELE/Nigeria: The situation at the central Hospital from report, is not friendly between the Administrator of the hospital, and staff as work place relationship has led to the comprise of administrative procedures and enforcement of discipline among workers.
Information reaching our newsroom has it that that one of the male staff of the hospital, by name Mr Lewis Oghueh, was beating into coma, by one Mr Efe Iyanu, an alleged lover of the hospital Administrator, Mrs Caroline Azegbo, while the Medical Director of the hospital watched helplessly.
Following the misgiving and tension the incident is generating, the Hospital Medical Director who is also at the centre of the crisis hurriedly set-up a 5-man administrative panel to investigate the matter, however, the administrator allegedly infiltrated the panel, while boasting that nothing will come out it.
ADVOCATE, an online newspaper, reported that the panel that was set up by the hospital management and the Delta State Hospital Management Board may have been compromised, as a reliable revealed that Mrs Azegbo popularly referred to as iron-lady may have penetrated the panellists many whom hold her great favour.
The incident which reportedly occurred on January 26th, according to our investigations has caused great uncertainty in the hospital as most of the staff wondered why the MD feels haplessly helpless to address the matter head-on, but has rather allegedly taken side with the man who assaulted the staff.
According to our sources who crave for anonymity, before the ugly incident on that faithful day, Mr Oghueh and Mrs. Azegbo had a cordial working relationship, which many described as like mother and a son.
However, Oghueh trouble stated when the hospital administrator car had battery problem and she requested that Oghueh who is incharge of the hospital generator gave Mrs. Azegbo one of the batteries, but rather than retune after use the she turned it into her personal and all effort to make her return it failed to yield the desired result as she resorted to threat and intimidation.
Matter came to head when Mrs Azegbo rather than retune the battery as requested by Oghueh brought her lover, who has unhindered access any place in the hospital to beat up when he was trying to explain what transpired to the MD.
According to the source, “Oghueh was called by the MD to come and check the battery in Mrs Azegbo’s car, but before he could say anything, Mr Efe Iyanu, descended on him punching, slapping him and because it’s against the civil service rule, he couldn’t fight back as he was beaten until he almost passed out, while the MD looked on.
“He was later rushed to the emergency unit of the hospital where medical doctors treated him and was later placed on admission and was discharged after about three days on admission.
“The hope of the staff getting justice is very slim as according to the source, Mrs. Azigbo as far as Hospital Management is concerned, she is on touchable and to lead credence to this fear, she was alleged to have gone to Asaba on Monday where he used the opportunity to reach out to the members of the panel sent to Sapele to investigate the crisis.
The source added; “my brother the woman and her lover are very powerful people, even when the case of assault reported against him at the Sapele police station, nothing came out of it, rather the man is now using officers from the new Area Commander’s office to harass and intimidate the victim.
Attempts by our correspondent to speak to Mr Ogueh and Mrs Azigbo didn’t yield any result as they decline to speak, nothing that the matter is being investigated and that as civil servants, they are not authorized to speak to press.
