Former Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State staff, Mr. Oyeboade Oyewole of the News and Current Affairs Department, Mr Peter Ajayi of the Commercial Services Department, Mr Segun Lawale of Administration and Supplies Department, Mr. Akinniyi Akinlabi of the Engineering Department, and Mr Ademola Adeniyi of the Programmes Department, who were reinstated by Governor Makinde four years after they were sacked by Governor Abiola Ajimobi, were yesterday received by the management and colleagues with such warmth that immediately reintegrated them into the organisation
Addressing the recalled staff on Thursday, Prince Dotun Oyelade, the corporation;s chairman, noted that the governor, on hearing about the disengagement of the staff in February 2019, during the electioneering, was pained for the unjustified disengagement of the career officers, and promised to look into the matter.
“This is a veritable template for the recalled officers to know that the present administration will not let injustice prevail forever. The present administration plans to get on with this as we move along towards 2023,” he said.
Oyelade, however, congratulated the recalled officers on behalf Governor Makinde, adding that the governor expects them to get to work immediately without any kind of disruption to the system presently on ground, emphasising the need for cooperation between the recalled staff those on ground so that the BCOS Projects of could move forward unabated.
He appealed to the recalled officers to add value and make a difference immediately, saying the should quickly adapt into the system they left four years ago, adding that the corporation’s signals have been expanded such that all the nooks and crannies of the state have been listening to the station clearly on radio. He said the governor has also promised to extend the corporation’s television viewership all over the state by the last quarter of this year.
Governor Makinde had last year set up a committee that looked into the cases of sacked civil servants during the tenure of Ajimobi. The committee, in its report, stated that some workers deserved the punishment, while a number of them had their appointments unjustly terminated. The committee recommended that those that were unjustly sacked should be recalled.
