The 1,500 primary and secondary school teachers in Osun State recruited by the immediate past administration of Governor Adegboyega Oyetola have once again pleaded with Governor Ademola Adeleke to rescind his executive order that nullified their appointment, noting that failure to do so would push them back into unemployment.
The affected teachers while addressing journalists in Osogbo on Monday, February 13, 2023, also added that their employment by the former administration followed due process.
The sacked teachers who resumed work under the administration of Adegboyega Oyetola were yet to be paid their salaries.
Daily Post recalls that earlier in January 2023, the teachers had urged the Adeleke administration to look into their plight and pay their salaries, pleading that four of their colleagues had died of depression.
Speaking on behalf of her colleagues, Isola Eunice pleaded with the governor to have mercy on them by addressing them and letting them know their fate on the teaching job.
“We have done everything possible to get his (Governor Adeleke’s) attention but we have not been able to get his response. We are dying of depression because a great number of us had resigned from our former places of employment,” she stated.
Another of the affected teachers, Adedeji Emmanuel argued that their recruitment which started in 2020 followed due procedure before they all got their appointment letters on September 30, 2022.
Emmanuel, who lamented that most of them graduated some 10 to 15 years ago, added that it will not be palatable for the government to force them back into the street as jobless individuals.
Fresh Protest Rocks Osun Over Tribunal Judgement Sacking Governor Adeleke
Following Friday’s Osun election petition tribunal judgment in favour of former governor Adegboyega Oyetola, protesters have blocked major roads within the State capital, Osogbo.
Daily Post reports that the protesting residents of the State have blocked the busy Osogbo-Ikirun road, Gbongan-Ibadan road, Oke-Fia, Old Garage, and Freedom Park.
They were seen on Saturday, January 28, 2023, disrupting the free flow of traffic, harassing and beating up minibus (korope) drivers.
Commercial motorcyclists were not spared as well.
The development caused many commuters to be stranded, just as many business owners who owned shops around the axis did not open for business transactions.
However, the protests did not spread to residential areas as daily activities went on as usual without disturbances
The protests also spread to towns like Ikirun, Ilesa, Ilobu, Iwo, Ile-Ife, and other towns where residents annoyed with the tribunal judgment also trooped out enmasse to protests.
Meanwhile, the Osun All Progressives Congress, APC, expressing concern has urged the Inspector General of Police, Alkali Baba Usman to intervene and put a stop to the threat to lives and properties rocking Osun.
This was made known in a press statement put out by Tajudeen Lawal, the Osun APC acting Chairman.
Lawal also wanted the IGP to urgently prevail on the leadership of the State police command to prioritize its statutory function of the protection of lives and property of the residents of the State.
According to him, “Information authoritatively has it that the PDP political thugs have formed themselves into cells in Osogbo, the State capital, where they were burning tyres in the middle of the roads amidst intimidation of innocent people.
“It is strange that the police in the State are looking away while these agents of death are perpetrating their political violence on the innocent people of the State.
“If the leadership of the police does not tackle the lingering insecurity issue headlong, there is a temptation by discerning minds to observe, suspect, believe, and conclude that the police are working in cahoots with the PDP and the recently sacked Governor Adeleke to terrorise the opposition members in the State,” the APC chairman opined.
Yemisi Opalola, the Osun Police Command spokesperson, when contacted stated that the situation was now under control.
In her words, “More men have been deployed to the identified spots where roads were blocked to traffic. The situation is under control.”
Source: Daily Post
