Chief Ebenezer Babatope, a former Minister of Transport during the late General Sani Abacha’s military regime has expressed sadness over the refusal of the federal government to pay him his retirement benefits despite putting in years of meritorious service to the country.
Babatope who clocked 78 today said former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who was Militart Head of State during the period unjustly dismissed him as a Senior Assistant Registrar (Students Affairs) in the University of Lagos (UNILAG) .
According to the chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) , the then Military Government accused him of supporting students against the government during the ‘Ali Must Go’ saga of April 1978.

"My major regret is my unjust dismissal from the University of Lagos (UNILAG) by General Olusegun Obasanjo without any retirement benefit till date. Obasanjo dismissed me from the services of the University of Lagos in 1978 as a result of the “Ali must go” demonstrations of Nigerian students in 1978”.

“I was accused of supporting students against the government when the late Segun Okeowo led the students for reforms in Nigeria’s educational system. The Governing Council of the university later met in November of that same year to turn my dismissal to retirement”.

The university later sent my papers to merge my services with the then Ministry of Establishment which was then under the late Brigadier-General Solomon Kikiowo Omojokun.  I am not blaming Omojokun but today at 78, I served my country meritoriously as a public servant but today, I have no established mark from the federal government to say this is what I have done”.
“I am still bitter because nobody has paid me a single kobo after my services to the university as retirement benefits. No one has done that till date” he said.
When asked why he has not lodged protests at the university over the issue, Babatope, Director of Organization of the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) in the Second Republic said
“I have done that several times through the Governing Council then. My uncle who was the registrar then had also made some representations on my behalf but nothing came out of them. And he is dead”.

“All the people connected to it one way or the other are all dead. It was subsumed in the arbitrariness of military dictatorship. Every effort made has come to naught".

https://www.independent.ng/my-regret-at-78-former-minister-ebenezer-babatope/

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Made more enemies than friends.
But he doesn't care.

A worker deserved his wage

he contributed to the mess in the country

yinkus6750:
OBJ, like or hate him, his a strong man
That's the kind of leader that fits the nation.
Made more enemies than friends.
But he doesn't care.

Nigeria