A Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), Kingdom Human Rights Foundation International has dragged the Management and Staff of the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Owerri, Imo State to an Owerri Federal High Court over what it described as “Insensitive, Illegal, Inhuman and Senseless Industrial action”.
In a suit number, HOW/OW/CS/108/2015, the NGO spearheaded by a radical Lawyer, Barr Kingdom Okere, among other reliefs is seeking a declaration that the Chief Medical Director and Management Board of FMC, Owerri have failed in their statutory responsibilities and have proven to be “corrupt, inefficient in the management of public health Institution and should be arrested and prosecuted for crime against humanity”.
The NGO sought for an order restricting all the defendants from embarking on any Industrial action for any reason whatsoever that is capable of endangering people’s lives now and in the future.
When the matter came up for hearing on Tuesday, June 9, at the Federal High Court, Owerri, the Presiding Judge, Hon Justice Ogunoyibo granted the prayer of the plaintiffs to commence the Suit and directed that the Defendants be put on notice on the issues the ex-parte.
The Judge also granted that the Defendants be served through substituted service by publication in Horn Newspaper or any other Newspaper circulating in Imo State.
