Ex-staff petitions Baptist schools over pay

By Wale AKINOLA
LAGOS — A former staff of Lagos Baptist Conference Schools is threatening to drag the body to court for allegedly withholding her entitlements.

Mrs. Elizabeth Olubukola Bibire pleaded for the payment of the entitlements but said she may seek legal intervention if the schools failed to heed her plea.

In a petition by her solicitors, Oritsedere Apokonoa & Co., dated June 3, 2011, Bibire, who served in the organisation as a storekeeper for eight years before she resigned on December 2, 1008, alleged that the body was hiding under the guise of a burglary incident that took place in the school during her tenure that led to the stealing of N148,800 kept in her custody to deny her the entitlements.

The petitioner however claimed that it was on record that she was not on account  of ill health when the burglary took place, adding that she was neither  questioned, indicated or had her appointment terminated  in respect  of the incident.

“Our client left the organisation for about seven months and it was when she requested to be paid her entitlements that the organisation brought the issue of burglary”, the petition said.

“It  sounds strange to us  that somebody could be indicted for a crime and wrongdoing without notification. It is wrong for the organisation to pass judgement on our client without hearing from her. It amounts to not giving her fair hearing.”