Angry leaders of the Academic Staff Union
of Universities allegedly chased away the
Governor of Kogi State, Captain Idris
Wada (retd.) from the emergency ward of
the Lokoja General Hospital on Tuesday.
Wada had gone to the hospital to visit
their injured colleague, Dr. Ngozi Ilo,
and commiserate with them over the death
of their former President, Prof. Festus
Iyayi, in an accident involving his convoy
and an ASUU vehicle on Tuesday. The
Chairman, University of Benin chapter of
ASUU, Dr. Anthony Monye-Emina; and the
Benin Zonal Coordinator, Dr. Sunny Iyalo,
had minor injuries and were therefore not
admitted into the hospital.
The ASUU leaders, including the National
President, Dr. Biodun Ogunyemi; the
Ibadan Zonal Coordinator, Dr. Nassir
Adesola; the Chairman, Lagos State
University chapter of the union, Dr.
Adekunle Idris; Monye-Emina; Iyalo
and lecturers from the Federal University
Lokoja however sent the governor away
from the hospital’s emergency ward. Their
grouse was Wada’s late response to the
accident and the uncaring attitude he
allegedly displayed towards the union
leaders involved in the accident. They also
accused him of trying to make a political
gain out of their misfortune.
Idris, who confirmed that Wada was
chased out of the emergency ward,
said, “We are surprised that a state
governor could resort to telling lies because
contrary to the claim by his spokesperson
that he showed care towards our
colleagues, he did not. “Somebody that did
not stop after his convoy killed our leader;
somebody that did not come to the
hospital until some minutes to 5pm(on
Tuesday) after the accident that
happened around 11am could not be said
to be caring.
“That was why we chased him out of the
emergency ward of the hospital and we
also prevented him from seeing Prof.
Iyayi’s corpse in the mortuary. “We are not
happy with the fact that he came very late
to the hospital and the fact that when he
came, his press crew attempted to take
photograph and video record of Dr. Ilo,
who is our national welfare secretary. We
stopped them because that was the
height of insensitivity.
“Somebody that could not provide us with
an ambulance cannot be said to be caring.
We had to call UNIBEN for an ambulance
that took Ilo to the UNIBEN Teaching
Hospital while our colleagues from the
Federal University, Lokoja, with the
assistance of the vice-chancellor, gave us
the ambulance that was used to convey the
remains of Prof. Iyayi to Benin.” Idris
added that though Wada left the hospital
“like a gentleman,” some of his
overzealous security aides tried to be
naughty.
He should have stopped after the incident
occured, not visit after several hours!
What do you think?

Dis very bad i min. People r xo senseles and careles