₦airaland Forum

Dear nairalanders,

I would like to seek your opinions and advice on a very critical matter.

My friend and I work in a Nigerian Federal Teaching Hospital as health practitioners, in different departments. The director of my friend's department is making life extremely difficult for staff of the department. He calls staff unprinted names and insults them in the presence of patients and patients' relatives, which, to my understanding, is contrary to the standards expected in the public service.
No one appears to feel comfortable challenging or even making suggestions to him. He exercises significant control over staff entitlements, including the approval of leave, and sometimes verbally posts staff to different locations at his discretion. He has also reportedly told staff who are uncomfortable with his decisions to resign.

His conduct is also well known within the town where the hospital is located. Many people in the community have personally witnessed his hostile and demeaning treatment of his subordinates during visits to the hospital.

He has been reported to the CMD on several occasions, but nothing appears to have been done. Interestingly, he often boasts that nobody can remove him from his position as a Director.

My questions are:

1. What are the appropriate ways to checkmate or hold such a person accountable within the Nigerian public service system?

2. Has anyone here experienced something similar in a Federal Teaching Hospital or other government institution? If so, how was the situation eventually handled?

3. What formal channels can affected staff use when internal complaints to the CMD appear to have yielded no result?

I would particularly appreciate responses from people with experience in the Nigerian public service, Hospitals, HR/industrial relations, or public-sector administration.

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Thank you.

Video him while insulting staff and send it to FIJ (Foundation for Investigative Journalism) and Sahara reporters.
They will post it, I guarantee you.

He will beg you with hot tears in his eyes.

Let me park here for now and observe

Wickedfacts:
Video him while insulting staff and send it to FIJ and Sahara reporters.

He will beg you with hot tears in his eyes.

Op this is last valid option. Govt and politicians hate public embarrassment, they love to project a positive public image even when rotten inside.

Whoever he's banking on will turn his back on him once his raging fit becomes public knowledge.

Story time. We are here


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It's so unfortunate that the powers that be are the ones ruling the affairs of your institution.
You just have to be prayerful,and diligent in your workplace, otherwise, it is a clear indication that the director operates in a higher level,
Occultic men boast much like that,you just have to save your life.

Bus driver

Abeg, drop me for here!!!
Make I come read comments

Try and record him/her when that spirit has come upon her and share to some platforms

If your life depend on your job then take everything you get at the job as part of keeping your life intact.

Drop your ego by not counting patients or people in the community seeing you being talked to by your superior as anything to be concerned about.

Just face your job and stop wanting to be pampered and respected by your superior because the way must of you young doctors feel yourself despiting knowing little actually needs someone like this director to put you in your places. Be humble and learn to be a doctor not a decoration

I hope i have not sounded like the director to you

Wickedfacts:
Video him while insulting staff and send it to FIJ and Sahara reporters.

He will beg you with hot tears in his eyes.

Follow this advice, and if possible, if you have a cordial relationship with the patient, you can tell one of them to do the video for you.

psalmsjob:
If your life depend on your job then take everything you get at the job as part of keeping your life intact.

Drop your ego by not counting patients or people in the community seeing you being talked to by your superior as anything to be concerned about.

Just face your job and stop wanting to be pampered and respected by your superior because the way must of you young doctors feel yourself despiting knowing little actually needs someone like this director to put you in your places. Be humble and learn to be a doctor not a decoration

I hope i have not sounded like the director to you

Is this an advice at all. Because he should tolerate every insults because his livelihood depends on the work. Aba, even there's a limit to insults at every private sectors talk less of public.

psalmsjob:
If your life depend on your job then take everything you get at the job as part of keeping your life intact.

Drop your ego by not counting patients or people in the community seeing you being talked to by your superior as anything to be concerned about.

Just face your job and stop wanting to be pampered and respected by your superior because the way must of you young doctors feel yourself despiting knowing little actually needs someone like this director to put you in your places. Be humble and learn to be a doctor not a decoration

I hope i have not sounded like the director to you

OP, is obviously a Gen-Z staff, and a product of one of these private universities where they're pampered. Contrastingly, the director na older gen trained in probably one of the federal/state universities and mentored to the top through a hierarchical and stern system with a no-nonsense approach. Gen-Zs find it EXTREMELY difficult working with such people because they dont have skins thick enough to take any criticisms, and rigid corrections. Very incorrigible and arrogant set of youths we are having around now. Na that director fit una. . You must all sit up and do the right thing! no chance for non-challance, unseriousness or laxities.

Cmanforall:
Let me park here for now and observe

park mak i see, i go tow you go station

Video it and post on public investigative journalist page, also report him to Servicom.

donleo92:
Bus driver

Abeg, drop me for here!!!
Make I come read comments

for mortuary you wan stop ba

adecares:
Is this an advice at all. Because he should tolerate every insults because his livelihood depends on the work. Aba, even there's a limit to insults at every private sectors talk less of public.

Then the alternative is to resign and setup his own clinic.....there are many doctors or health "practitioners" (that's what they call themselves when they are not actually doctors ) waiting to take the BS he is complaining about...but i don't think a director will just start insulting you for nothing but when a student doctor comes late to work, or flip through tiktok at work, or sit around gisting amd chatting away or can't differentiate between a 5mm and 10mm cyringe or make proper diagnosis they need to be insulted with every insult imaginable because lives depends on what they do....the job is not for titles is to save life.

Every mistake can cost someone their life so they need such a director there and may God keep the hated director safe there.

Wickedfacts:
Video him while insulting staff and send it to FIJ (Foundation for Investigative Journalism) and Sahara reporters.
They will post it, I guarantee you.

He will beg you with hot tears in his eyes.

Brilliant idea!

Seven more characters needed

Pootle:
park mak i see, i go tow you go station

Reading comments

Someone said op is GenZ

Op are you GenZ?

Pootle:
for mortuary you wan stop ba

Na you be the attendant baa

This is so distasteful to see

Is it crime to be Nigerian

As someone mentioned up there, post him on social media, the court of public opinion.

Get a smart glass 👓 thats all.
You can secretly send your evidence to those bloggers

A little friendly encouragement for a good story!

Technical Writer

Just try am 1st, Na to call road safety for you

Cmanforall:
Let me park here for now and observe

Chai. So sorry OP. Report him with evidence to the appropriate authorities

Wickedfacts:
Video him while insulting staff and send it to FIJ (Foundation for Investigative Journalism) and Sahara reporters.
They will post it, I guarantee you.

He will beg you with hot tears in his eyes.

I agree with this because it is through visual evidence that the atrocities can be seen by the relevant authorities

Trend with caution to avoid victimization. He will soon retire.

Wickedfacts:
Video him while insulting staff and send it to FIJ (Foundation for Investigative Journalism) and Sahara reporters.
They will post it, I guarantee you.

He will beg you with hot tears in his eyes.

just post his video on line when he is doing his rubbish . VDM will take it from there. As hell rufai boast reach where him dey know nobody wey hand no fit touch

psalmsjob:
If your life depend on your job then take everything you get at the job as part of keeping your life intact.

Drop your ego by not counting patients or people in the community seeing you being talked to by your superior as anything to be concerned about.

Just face your job and stop wanting to be pampered and respected by your superior because the way must of you young doctors feel yourself despiting knowing little actually needs someone like this director to put you in your places. Be humble and learn to be a doctor not a decoration

I hope i have not sounded like the director to you

Jewish reasoning!

This is the type of mentality that gets you caged in slavery... Even when the oppressor is scared of the slave.

kingreign:
Video it and post on public investigative journalist page, also report him to Servicom.

Nope:
You are just like him. Or else, you would have advised him to:
1. Do his job well
2. Report to higher authorities if not treated right.

There are rules called the PSR in Nigeria.
The OP can’t report and get any action taken because he most probably knows that there’s nothing that the boss is doing wrong. They just don’t like him.

Well, i do not want to take side till i hear from the director first. Hearing from both parties is the way to go because all this Generation of zombies staff are something else.

TheGuyJ:
Dear nairalanders,

I would like to seek your opinions and advice on a very critical matter.

My friend and I work in a Nigerian Federal Teaching Hospital as health practitioners, in different departments. The director of my friend's department is making life extremely difficult for staff of the department. He calls staff unprinted names and insults them in the presence of patients and patients' relatives, which, to my understanding, is contrary to the standards expected in the public service.
No one appears to feel comfortable challenging or even making suggestions to him. He exercises significant control over staff entitlements, including the approval of leave, and sometimes verbally posts staff to different locations at his discretion. He has also reportedly told staff who are uncomfortable with his decisions to resign.

His conduct is also well known within the town where the hospital is located. Many people in the community have personally witnessed his hostile and demeaning treatment of his subordinates during visits to the hospital.

He has been reported to the CMD on several occasions, but nothing appears to have been done. Interestingly, he often boasts that nobody can remove him from his position as a Director.

My questions are:

1. What are the appropriate ways to checkmate or hold such a person accountable within the Nigerian public service system?

2. Has anyone here experienced something similar in a Federal Teaching Hospital or other government institution? If so, how was the situation eventually handled?

3. What formal channels can affected staff use when internal complaints to the CMD appear to have yielded no result?

I would particularly appreciate responses from people with experience in the Nigerian public service, Hospitals, HR/industrial relations, or public-sector administration.

---

Thank you.

Video him during one of his tirades and make him a viral star like di one i saw of one lecturer collecting blasting di oda day, Once he goes viral him brain go dey reset gradually.