Nasarawa: FMC Keffi Sacks Two, Suspends Others Over Job Racketeering

By Ayodele Oni

The Management of the Federal Medical Centre, (FMC) Keffi, in Nasarawa state, in a bid to address Indiscipline among the workforce,  has sacked two of its staff and suspended others over job racketeering.

Dr Yahaya Adamu, the Chief Medical Director, (CMD), of the hospital disclosed this in an interview with newsmen on Friday in Keffi.

According to Mr Ahmad, when the allegation was reported to the management, it immediately constituted a committee to investigate the matter.

He added that those found wanting were handed over to its Disciplinary Committee on Senior Staff Affairs for further action.

He explained that the committee, headed by himself, had statutory membership with a representative of the Minister of Health and various health unions as observers.

“The investigation was done in the open and having concluded our work, we forwarded our recommendations to the minister since the board of the hospital is yet to be constituted.

“The recommendations were modified and a final position was taken over all those accused of job racketeering and others accused of committing other offences.

“Nine staff were affected and all of them were tried base on their levels of involvement. Only one them was found not guilty.”

The CMD explained that none among the accused staff was spared, adding that those who were not punished were found to be wrongly accused.

“So there was nobody that was guilty that was not punished and those who were suspected to be guilty, but for one reason or the other, their cases have not been concluded were asked to remain until we conclude their matter.

“For anybody to say we allowed some of the accused persons to resume work after these steps that have been taken is unfair.”

Ahmad further explained that out of the two that were sacked, Peter Dare, found to be the ring leader of the racketeering syndicate, has been outrightly dismissed, while the appointment of the second person was terminated.”