In Benin city, Edo State some interest groups and stakeholders have uncovered the real reason behind the blatant disregard for the welfare of Staff and Patients in the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) .

Sources close to the Management, notoriously led by Professor Micheal Okoeguale Ibadin, have informed our reporters that the anarchy and disruption of services sequel to the willful denial of due benefits to staff has been masterminded by the aforementioned chief Executive of the hospital and some PDP chieftains in order to bring the Government of President Mohammadu Buhari as well the HonoUrable Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Folurusho Adewole to Ridicule.

This explains the obvious disregard of appeals from the Ministry of Health and other stakeholders to the Management of the hospital to implement Government policies and agreements in the hospital to no avail. Officials at the Ministry of Finance and even the supervisory ministry of health recently revealed that the Management had unilaterally decided against budgeting and even appropriating due benefits for its staff even after the latitude had been provided for the institution.

It is even more scandalous that the hospital's Management has been briefed by the Ministries of the availability of more slots for employment into the hospital and the attendant increase in the allocation; the management of the hospital was said to have turned deaf ears to the advice and instead insisted on continual erosion of the staff strength to its current size which unfortunately is the barest minimum that can offer some semblance of service to Innocent Nigerians.

It's of note that since the inception of the Buhari Administration, the hospital Management has grown increasingly hostile to unions in the hospital with the their demands for better welfare of their members regarded as "waste of Time" by the management with the resultant increase in rife in the institution.

Recently, the Chief Executive Prof M.O Ibadin barred Union Executives from Seeking Audience with him all in a bid to create an atmosphere of animosity and mutual suspicion. These set of events may not be unconnected with the huge sums of Hospital Funds reportedly committed to the last General Elections in order to Perpetrate the then "Status Quo.”

While boasting that his Godfather is Chief Tony Anenih who is also his Uromi Kinsman, Ibadin said he is untouchable as he has the whole of PDP behind him including the support of the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu.

Ibadin has even been quoted saying at different Fora that " You know this is not our Government, so anything you see take it".
The hospital Management had earlier led a campaign of calumny against the present federal Government accusing it of favouring some Federal Hospitals while depriving others like UBTH.

This was supposedly to explain its inability to implement same welfare packages to its staff as obtained in other Federal Tertiary Health Institutions.. It is saddening that because of Partisan Politics and in a desperate bid to undermine the Government of Change, some individuals in position of Authority have been toying with lives of Nigerians and have purposely debased the welfare of staff rather than protect and guarantee it. To say therefore that an immediate CHANGE is needed in UBTH is an understatement.

He should be crucified...

if this is true then this is the most wicked act I've seen. I hear so many people are dying as a result of too many strikes in that hospital. does govt not have ways of checking the excesses of its employees. I weep for Nigeria. a place where even the anti corruption agencies have their price if this is true then this is the most wicked act I've seen. I hear so many people are dying as a result of too many strikes in that hospital. does govt not have ways of checking the excesses of its employees. I weep for Nigeria. a place where even the anti corruption agencies have their price

just wait... his supporters will soon start talking spoil here...

Ah UBTH in the news for the wrong reason again? Seun take note.