This is a story of a “village headmaster” and an “errant school child”… abi how I for take describe am…, another nonsense from our theatre of absurdities.
STARRING:
Headmaster :Dr. Joseph Otumara (Delta State Commissioner of Health)
Pupil: Mrs. Akata Oghenero (Female Nursing Officer)
Amazed Pupils: Anonymous Eye Witness
DATE SHOT: 29TH MARCH 2012
LOCATION: Central Hospital, Warri
Can’t just make a comic of everything… lets read a stark report instead… weep for our country
Delta State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Joseph Otumara, last week slapped a female nursing officer at the Central Hospital in Warri, Mrs. Akata Oghenero for taking a phone call.
Recounting the ordeal, a senior nurse in the hospital who pleaded for anonymity stated, “On 29 March, 2012, while Mrs. Akata Oghenero, a Nursing Officer II at the Central Hospital, Warri was on duty in the Gynae ward of the said hospital, the Health commissioner, Dr. Joseph Otumara, and his entourage came into the said ward and, in the process, Mrs. Oghenero, in company of some student nurses who were present, immediately stood up to acknowledge his presence, while the commissioner and his entourage walked through to the maternity ward. Shortly after a while Mrs. Oghenero received an emergency call on her mobile phone and she was on the phone all of a sudden she got a severe slap on her right check. Lo and behold she was shocked on turning her face to discover that the slap was from the Health commissioner Dr. Joseph Otumara.”
After jungle justice had been meted out, the permanent secretary of the Hospitals Management Board, Asaba, swung into action by trying to track down the identity of the nurse and in a bid pacify their boss by issuing her a query or possibly firing her. The first and only thing that should have been done to her.
This is not the first time that Dr. Otumara is being founding wanting and acting contrary to the norms. Recall sometimes ago he confronted a Vanguard journalist who dared report that he could not recite the second stanza of the nation anthem while undergoing screening by the Delta state House of Assembly.