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Saturday, May 2, 2026

Whistleblowing: Ogun nurse protests sacking, seeks justice - Punch Newspapers

A 34-year-old nurse of the Ogun State College of Health Technology, Ilese-Ijebu, Olamide Thomas, has cried out for justice after the school management terminated her appointment on the suspicion that she was the whistleblower who wrote a petition against workers of the school that were hoarding and selling National Health Insurance Scheme drugs meant for students of the school.

PUNCH Metro gathered that sometime in August 2022, a whistleblower petitioned the Zone 2 Command about some workers of the school who were illegally hoarding and selling the NHIS drugs to pharmaceutical shops in the area.

The Zone 2 Command, while investigating the case, was said to have invited some members of the institution regarding the matter.

Thomas, while speaking with our correspondent, said while she alongside other workers was at the command, the investigating police officer showed them the petition written by the whistleblower.

In the petition sighted by our correspondent, the whistleblower accused the school’s registrar of deducting money from the salaries of the workers of the school for verification and diverting the money for personal use.

The petition read in part, “The registrar deducted N7,500 from the salaries of each staff for verification exercise which she never did but diverted the funds for personal use, and having a share of proceeds from sales of NHIS drugs meant for students, sharing from proceeds from sales of clinic’s biggest generator, and suppression of right...



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