Lotad Funeral Services Nigeria Limited has denied reports that its Chairman, General Oladipo Diya (retd) was involved in any case of human parts scandal as alleged by a former General Manager of the company Mr Oluwatosin Onamade.
The secretary to the company, Kehinde Diya said that the report was a mischievous attempt to portray the company and its chairman, Gen. Oladipo Diya, in bad light and lower the estimation in the eyes of the public.
Diya, while addressing newsmen during the week, explained that Onamade and Lotad Funeral Services Limited entered a one-year Lease arrangement through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which granted the running and management of the business to the former. The MoU was effective from April, 2006.
Diya explained that the MoU was never renewed, but in 2008, the company’s Board of Directors got information of how Onomade had allegedly sacked some members of staff, including one Jimoh Saliu, without the consent of the company’s chairman or Board of Directors.
This act, according to Barr. Diya, was a breach of Section 29 of the MoU which states that “none of the parties shall make or engage any contract without the consent of the other.”
Consequently, the company deemed it fit to re-instate in June, 2008, Saliu who was reportedly sacked around July, 2007. Onomade was thereafter sacked for various alleged anomalies.
Barr. Kehinde Diya said that contrary to his claim, Onomade never raised any alarm through an internal memo in 2007 that a member of staff had been pilfering and selling vital parts of corpses deposited in the morgue.
He pointed out that Mr. Saliu’s reinstatement came about a year after his purported dismissal by Onomade.
“I think the question should be asked that why did the reinstatement come almost a year after the dismissal, because if the management was aware of any antics it supported, the reinstatement would have come immediately after the purported dismissal,” Diya said.
The company therefore wondered why Onomade never made any effort to lodge complaints to the police, so as to determine the buyers of such human parts. “If Onomade claims that he sacked Saliu for such a criminal offence, what steps has he taken to hand him over to the police. The police needs to be invited into the matter as crime is not status barred,” he said.
Diya also asserted that there has not been any complaints of missing parts by any corpse depositor. He explained that it is an in-house rule that a relative must be around when a corpse is being dressed. Therefore, there couldn’t have been a way the relatives will not detect a missing part in their corpses.
Source: http://thenationonlineng.net/web3/news/16864.html
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