3 pensioners collapse during staff audit exercise in Osun

At least three members of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners (NUP), Osun State chapter reportedly collapsed on Monday during the ongoing staff audit exercise embarked upon by the state government for its staff.

It was gathered that the incident threw members of the union into confusion as the healthy among them were running helter skelter to revive the collapsed victims.

It took the intervention of the medics of the State Ambulance Service to revive and stablise the victims.

Retirees, numbering about 2,000 old men and women who looked visibly aged, frail and in some cases sick, were at the premises of the Center for Black Culture and International Understanding, Osogbo, venue of the ongoing screening exercise.

A number of them who could not withstand long time standing were seen either, lying down, sleeping or sitting on the bare floor to avoid eventuality.

Many of the pensioners were visibly angry for what they described as inhuman treatment by the handlers of the exercise.

One of the retirees, Samuel Aduroroja, decried the arrangement and the eventual treatments of his colleagues who came for the exercise from across the State.

Though, he agreed that the exercise as sanctioned by the state government was desirable, but was of the opinion that the process would have been made easier if it were to be done on local government or zonal basis.

It would be recalled that the staff audit was earlier suspended for weeks by the state House of Assembly over inhuman treatment meted to the civil servants by the consultant,Saadat Bakri-Ottun, but the suspension was lifted after she promised to correct her mistakes.