General Congress of the federal neuro psychiatric hospital Enugu workers has dissociated itself from what it termed a sponsored press conference and mails to the ministry of health purportedly from the union of the hospital.
The Congress denied knowledge of a recent press conference accusing the embattled Medical Director of the hospital Dr Monday Nwite Igwe of sponsoring ‘fake’ union leaders in causing trouble.
In a statement made available to newsmen and signed by Ogugua Igwe, speaker of the General Congress of the hospital, said they didn’t send anyone to address the press.
“We want to state categorically that we did not send any person nor persons to represent us and that they are not speaking for the staff of the hospital rather they are representing themselves.
“They are just show men that will call some people and take pictures or video and dismisses them only to go and start singing the praises for the medical director. They are sycophants whose tenure in our union has expired, some of them are on interdiction.
“The medical director is the problem in the hospital. He is spending tax payers money seeking cheap popularity by sponsoring persons to sing his praises.
“Those people he said that are the union leaders do not speak for the staff, some of them are the people who benefited from his illegal employment, some are on interdiction, some went to school without permission, some are on double salary from the Federal government.”
The Congress alleged attempts by the MD to distract the public following recent attempt by police from Zone 13 to arrest him.
“He is trying to distract the general public from the real issues. His wife is in UK studying nursing while he shut down the school here to the detriment of the students as he posted all the academic and non academic staff of the school to the wards.
“He wants to be principal and Medical Director at the same time.The medical director is polarising the hospital. The general Congress will stand firm against any stooges of the medical director. Let us look at the main issues in the hospital rather than pursuing shadows.
“There is an institutional breakdown in the leadership of the hospital. All the HODs of the hospital should be engaged to unfold the root cause of the problems in the hospital rather than the MD using some staff to sing his praises.
“The coalition of civil societies is living up to its expectations in rising up to the occasion in its responsibilities to stop injustice and defend the oppressed in the hospital.”
