Mr. Jolly Omokaro, father of four-year-old Miss Imienfan Omokaro who recently drowned at the Kingdom Heritage Model School, an arm of Winners Chapel on Sapele Road, Benin City, Edo State, is demanding N2 billion as general damages from General Overseer of the church, David Oyedepo, within 14 days.
The demand was contained in a letter dated November 28, by Omokaro’s counsel, Peter Uwadiae-Igbinigie.
Uwadiae-Igbinigie explained that the amount was “for the callous and senseless killing of our client’s daughter, Miss Imienfan Omokaro.”
Besides, Omokaro’s lawyer wants Kingdom Heritage Model School to tender unreserved apology in three national newspapers, warning that if the demands were not met within 14 days, “We have the irrevocable instructions of our client to commence legal action against the school (Kingdom Heritage Model School) and church (Winners Chapel) without any further correspondence from this chambers.”
It would be recalled that Imienfan, a Kindergarten pupil of Kingdom Heritage Model School, was reported drowned in a drum of water in a toilet in the school on November 1.
Her parents were not informed of the incident until late in the day when her mother wanted to pick her from school.
The school authority and Winners Chapel had reportedly prayed for the little girl before taking her to Irowa Hospital in Benin, where medical personnel confirmed she was dead before she was brought in.
In a related development, two Indian doctors employed at the Primus Hospital in Abuja have filed two separate suits before a Federal High Court asking that their employers release to them their international passports and other travel documents allegedly being held illegally.
The hospital is also owned by Indians.
Amit Bali, a consultant anaesthetist, and Neeraj Singh, a pathology consultant, who signed two-year contracts in February and began to work at the hospital in March, both resigned in September.
Apart from the hospital, the suits also cited the hospital’s Chairperson Achla Dewan, its Chief Financial Officer, Pinto Jayraj, Medical Superintendent, Eugene Obiora Emordi, and the Nigerian Immigration Service as respondents.
According to the documents filed by their counsel, Veronica Shinnaan, in Abuja, the doctors alleged that they were coerced into signing the contracts which were not signed by their employers and that they have been denied their salaries for three months.
In separate affidavits, the doctors said they wrote to the hospital demanding for their salaries and the release of their international passports and travel documents after giving a notice of resignation but the hospital replied via email, stating that they have no right to resign and should return to work.
Bali and Singh are seeking an order restraining the respondents from illegally repatriating them from Nigeria or canceling their visas pending the determination of the suit.
They want an order compelling the respondents to immediately return their international passports and other travel documents in their possession.
They similarly want an order restraining the respondents from illegally evicting them from their homes without payments of their outstanding salaries and other entitlements and proper arrangements for their return to India.
They also want the court to restrain the respondents from further harassing, threatening, intimidating or verbally insulting them.
Adjourning the case till December 10, Justice Gabriel Kolawole asked the respondents to come before the court to show cause why the orders should not be granted.
-Daily Independent
That's mean! Why are they treating their staff like dt? :(
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