Group demands Aregbesola’s resignation

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NIGERIA: A CIVIL society organization under the aegis of Civil Societies Coalition for the Emancipation of Osun State (CSCEO) has advised the state Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, to resign from office due to the ongoing crisis in the state.
The group said that the governor should quit office over the illegal sack of no fewer than 141 members of the Academic and Non-Academic Staff Union of the two colleges of education in the state.

The group also alleged that Aregbesola had directed the management of the two polytechnics in the state to give sack letters to over 100 academic and non-academic staff of the institutions this week.
The human rights group maintained that the illegal action of the governor confirmed the group’s earlier claim that he had concluded arrangement to sack 9,582 workers across the 30 local government and public service establishment in the state.
The group in a statement signed by its Chairman, Comrade Adeniyi Sulaiman, who also doubles as Executive Chairman, Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (CHRSJ), said in Osogbo that the civil society group was prepared to resist all the anti-workers policies of Aregbesola’s government which were contrary to the Labour Law, Labour and Allied Matter Act, Workmen’s Compensation Act and Locus Classicus Labour Act.
The group further urged the affected workers in the state owned tertiary institutions to put their minds at rest as the group was fully ready to defend them against the illegal termination of their job.
The body advised the government to change its decision by withdrawing the sack letters given to the affected workers in the state owned tertiary institutions.
The group also urged the governor to withdraw the threat to sack over 500 medical doctors in the service of the state government and meeting their legal home demands.

• By Tope Kayode-Adedeji