Breaking News: Governor Obiano, Ex-Governor Peter Obi, Senators, FRSC Boss could not save Odogwu Emeka Odogwu, but.............

 How time flies! By March last year, the CEO/Chairman of Odogwu Media publishers of www.odogwublog.com and some other online platform, Comrade Odogwu Emeka Odogwu lost his job with The Nation Newspapers. In fact, he was sacked without mercy or option to defend himself even without severance package.
But he did not begrudge anybody though he pleaded because the allegations were empty and baseless. Yes his offence was weighty but could be forgiven. He gave a two months exclusive investigate report to The Sun Newspaper but mistakenly or deliberately his name was used in the three pages report.
The Nation did not notice much as Odogwu’s younger brother Odogwu Obinna with a higher garb for the profession is identifying with the Sun and was active at that point in time to the extent of wining an Award for Sun as best Campus Reporter of the Year or so.
The MD of The Nation Victor Ifijeh sacked me without option even when The Nation elevated me from the freelance opportunity I requested two years later as a staff and even paid me. It was strange but God knows better.
I opened up and told anybody that is somebody and some asked me what I wanted and I said to plead on my behalf because Sun never paid me a dime nor other papers , I just love reading myself  and if my paper fails , I venture and no journalist including Ifijeh in his days in Thisday Newspaper did not do it. I was just unfortunate and I got sacked for it.
Shockingly, my Governor and my friend Peter Obi did not pursue it in his style of getting whatever he wanted. He actually intervened but MD Ifijeh said no and that was it, but I now understood better why God did not ask him to do it his way and exonerated him of blames while thanking God for today. But the new Governor then, Chief Willie Obiano shocked me.  He took it personal, and used everything within his disposal as Governor to request for my recall though The Nation was against his election that was another hitch.
Some top Federal Government officials and elected officials as well as Senior Editors intervened but I was sacked for the sake of Federal Polytechnic Oko for doing a reporters job of investigation and getting all sides of the story. A story rejected by The Nation as being one sided made the cover in another with all sides represented but I was sacked. I took it in good faith and moved on after all the plea failed and continued to show love to all.
I don’t want to go into the humiliation I suffered then but God is in control that I was in my house and got hired even when I have started blogging.
I am so happy today that I was in a cyber cafe , somebody I don’t even know came in with loads of document and was saying all kinds of things and suddenly called my name even without knowing I was the one he called. I got interested and one thing led to the other only for me to see loads of petitions to the President federal Republic of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari and copied so many people including EFCC and ICPC by the Registrar , Anthony Nwokolobia  asking for a judicial panel of enquiry against Rector of Federal Polytechnic, Oko Prof Godwin Onu since 2010 for diversion of millions of naira to private accounts giving example of medical center of the institution.
Nwokolobia requests a comprehensive independent audit of books of accounts of the Polytechnic considering financial recklessness of the Rector and called for suspicion of both Rector and Bursar  during the audit as they had influenced all previous audits.
Is it Nwokolobai , my friend who could not say a word when I was hunted? I was shocked because he knows my antecedents and had encouraged me severally as PRO Oko before he was made Registrar and he brought another of my friend Obini Onuchukwu who betrayed me though I HAVE FORGIVEN HIM and all of them including Rector. I was accused of collecting money from Igwe Oko, Laz Ekwueme to bring the school down who does not even know me by name or face .................
He said over N1 Billion was abused...............................
The petition was like a dictionary ...............................................................and again a call came as if in telepathy a staff of the Polytechnic staff school called me and said the teachers all of the signed a petition to President Buhari and a copy for me ............................I was happy I have been exonerated and I share with you having bothered you much when I was sacked ........................
See the staff school petition

AN APPEAL TO HIS EXCELLENCY, THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, FOR RESCUE FROM THE MOST IMPUDENT AND SACRILEGIOUS RAPE OF ALL TIMES, FROM THE MALTREATED STAFF OF FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC OKO.
24/7/2015
Your Excellency,
We most heartily welcome you to the enormous task of piloting the affairs of this our great nation to her rightful place in the community of nations. Let The Almighty God be your guard and guide through all obstacles in the way.
THE APPEAL: For the fourteenth year running, we the undersigned staff of Federal Polytechnic Oko have been subjected to the most inhuman marginalization and denial of all times as listed below:
1.    We were all statutorily employed and confirmed into Federal Polytechnic Oko between 2002 and 2007, (See Appendix 1).
2.    We worked for the first 19 months without any payment.
3.    While we were not being paid salaries between 2002 and 2004, six of us were being paid. These are the people interviewed and employed along with us on the same date and by the same panel. When almost the entire polytechnic community cried out against the injustice, the salaries of those six were equally withheld, after ten months of paying them.
4.    In February 2003 we were givendudchequespurported to be our first salaries; these cheques were retrieved from us at the departure of Federal auditors before whom we all appeared for the 2003 auditing.
5.    When they finally started paying us, we only receive 1/3 of our real salaries to date; for the pastthirteen years we were short changed by 2/3 of our legitimate salaries (see the table in Appendix 3 for what each of us is paid compared to the salary of which the given pension deduction is its 15%)
6.    When all the polytechnic staff were paidmonetization, we were also paid but only1/4 of ours.
7.    We were all employed between 2002 and 2005 but we have only been ‘promoted’ twice (some of us once)and both promotions had been with notional effect from due date but financial effect from, at least, two years after the due date (See sample promotion letter in Appendix 1)
8.    We have been tactically prevented from belonging to any trade union. To achieve this, money deducted from our salaries as union dues have not been paid to the union, not even once, although they are continually deducted from the little we are paid (See Appendix 6 for sample pay slip). This is only to disarm us from fighting for our rights through trade unions.
9.    Those of us employed before 2003 took part in the staff audit/staff verification exercises of 2002 and 2003. We were all involved in the staff audit/staff verification exercises of 2005, 2007 and 2010. We all took part in all Staff Bio-data captures leading to the production of both the old and recent Staff Identity Cards, and we all have them, like every other staff.We all took part in assets declaration exercise for public officers in 2012. We always fill and submit the monthly appraisal forms like every other staff of the polytechnic(see Appendix 2 for sample copies).
10.    We all took part in the 2006 E- Registration exercise for public sector employees, we were all registered with Pension Fund Administrators (PFA). We receive our pension updates like every public sector employee up to date. From the account update in hard copies and SMS alerts we receive from pension administrators,it is clear that we are given, at best,1/3 of our salaries. The monthly pension contributions from both the employer and the employeeare supposed to be 15% of one’s monthly gross pay. The attached extract from the schedule used in paying us and the pension deductions from our pension letters and SMS alerts, does not corroborate this. What an intrigue!Where is the 85% all these years!??? (See the table inAppendix 3 and sample pension letter).
11.     We made several reports and agitations to the Polytechnic Management over our plight; they, not willing to look into our case due to the enormity of crime being committed against us, sacked all of us in August 2, 2010, with a letter containing the phrase ‘’from(September 1, 2010) your services with the Polytechnic will cease’’; only to recall us after a week with another letter with this phrase ‘’by this memo you should count yourself as a staff of the polytechnic staff schools’’. (see Appendix 4 for both sack and recall letters)
12.    After we were called back, we, on the 6th of October 2010, wrote a report to the Polytechnic Governing Council decrying our plight, as several attempts at resolving this with the management had failed. (The Rector told us that his hands were tied). The report to the council received no reply like all other mails to the Polytechnic Management and Council. (See Appendix 5 for samples of such letters).
13.    We were all employed, documented and well numbered into the Federal Polytechnic Oko workforce as evidenced by our service numbers, between 2002 and 2005 (see the table in Appendix 3), but deployed in her staff schools. We are by no means contesting the status of the staff schools, neither are we by any means questioning Government policy on running these schools. We are only contending for the rights/benefits of our confirmed statutory employment withFederal Polytechnic Oko; all documents related to our employment prove our employment status, these documents include:
    (a) Advertisement for vacancies                                (b) Invitation to interview                                (c) Appointment letters                                    (d) Confirmation letters                                    (e) Identity Cards (both old and new)                           (f) Promotion letters (though only  two in thirteen years).
(g) Pension letters which reflect our true salaries that usually get lost intransit.
These documents speak for themselves (See Appendix 1). We have all been employed before any change in Government position as regards staff schools in tertiary institutions. We, once again state that we are by no means questioning Government position on running of these schools; we only earnestly request that our confirmed statutory employment with Federal Polytechnic Oko, of which salaries get lost in transit butcontinuously reflected in our pension letters and SMS alert to date, be given to us, with all its diverted salaryarears.
14.    The 1/3 salaries we receive are not and have never been regular; for instance, as at the time of writing this appeal, we have a back log of five months salaries. (February to July 2015)
15.    From the 1/3 salaries paid to us, further deductions (including ‘purported’ pension deductions) are made as evident in our pay advice which has even seized coming. This deductions amount to double deductions when we know that such deductions have been made from our diverted salaries. (See Appendix 6 for the sample of the pay slips).
16.    Some of our fellow staff members (precisely 6 of them) doing the same job in the same staff school, some of them subordinates to some of us receive their full salaries and some have been drafted back into the main polytechnic, not for any reason of academic superiority or experience, thereby increasing our psychological torture.

Before now we have been gagged, intimidated, supressed and deprived.More frustrating is the fact that many attempts at bringing our case to the limelight has always been hijacked somewhere and somehow.The journalist, Odogwu Emeka Odogwu who dared to take the bull by the horn to let the public know of the Federal Polytechnic Oko mafia lost his job with the Nation Newspaper for doing so. He is still jobless up till the time of this write up.
Your Excellency,Our appeal is that our dignity as humans be restored and our citizenship as Nigerians be protected by directing:
a.    That our due placements be given to us and let our real salaries henceforth be paid as portrayed in our pension letters and SMS alert, including all attendant condition of service.
b.    That we be given all our accrued promotions with its accruing arrears and subsequent promotions as at when due, as every other staff.
c.    That our 19 months unpaid salaries be paid to us.
d.     That the difference between what we are being paid and what our real salaries are, from the date of our employment to date be paid to us.
e.    That we be treated with respect and dignity as every other employee of the polytechnic.
f.    That we be placed in an enabling working environment as hitherto we have worked in subhuman working environment; else let us be reposted.
g.    That the misgiving about Odogwu Emeka Odogwu(the journalist who lost his job simply because he exposed the whole truths concerning our condition) be corrected. Odogwu Emeka Odogwu is being accused of collecting money from us in other to do these publications, which is nothing but intimidating fallacy. We did not, by ourselves, invite him into this case, neither have we given him any kobo for speaking for us, nor has he ever requested for any money from us.
We know that the FederalGovernment does not audit staff of private enterprises. The fact that we have been part of all the  Federal Polytechnic Staff Audits/Staff Verification exercises between 2002 and 2010, and the continual receipt of our pension updates reflecting our actual pay package, leaves no doubt to our employment status, but leaves much to be answered by the management of Federal Polytechnic Oko over our salaries.It is a heinous crime against fellow humans to have diverted our salaries these 13 years!
WE PLEAD TO BE HEARD!  WE PLEAD TO BE DELIVERED!! WE PLEAD TO BE GRANTED JUSTICE!!!                                            
PLEASE SAVE OUR SOULS

Yours in the Nation’s Service,
The Undersigned


Details coming later but should you  wish to confirm,  this is the Principal 08063761322: Another staff 07031291059, and yet another Headmistress 08032288540