The Delta State House of Assembly has upheld the demotion by two grade levels of Pharmacist Kelvil Onome Onyinvwi by the Delta State Hospitals Management Board.
The decision of the House was part of the recommendation of House Committee on Public Petitions on the alleged unjustified demotion of Pharmacist Kelvil Oyinvwi by the Hospitals Management Board.
Mr Kelvil Onome Onyinvwi, a pharmacist working at the Eku Government Hospital had petitioned the state house of assembly asking it to investigate his demotion with a view of reversing the two steps demotion in rank by the Delta State Hospitals Management Board.
Presenting the report the Chairman House Committee on Public Petitions Honourable Orezi Esievo said the petition was presented to the House by Hon Dennis Omovie on behalf of the petitioner in 2016.
She said the petitioner approached the House to direct the Hospital Management Board to reverse its action and reinstate him to the grade level he ought to be alongside his counterparts.
Mr Oyinvwi contended that the events leading to his demotion by two grade levels were not only stage managed but orchestrated to ridicule and embarrass him.
The lawmaker noted that the petitioner told the committee that his ordeal started when officers from the HMB paid an unscheduled visit to the Eku Baptist Hospital Eku where he was working as the Head of Pharmacy department and in the course of their inspection found some drugs which were not hospital property in his office.
The petitioner said the Board set up a panel to investigate the matter and he was found to be selling private drugs in the hospital and was subsequently demoted by two grade levels.
Honourable Esievo said the Director of Hospital Services, Dr A. L Pemu told the committee that the Board took the decision after an extensive consideration of series of wrong doings in various stations Pharmacist Onyivwi had worked including Issele Uku where the community wrote to the Board over his misconduct and was removed after investigation.
He said the unscheduled visit to Eku Baptist Hospital was in response to a text massage from Eku community that private drugs were being sold in the hospital at exorbitant rates, stressing that private drugs were discovered in his office and that of his Assiatant Pharmacist Aghwadoma which were for his private pharmacy in Asaba.
Hon Esievo said the committee took a critical look at the various positions canvassed by both parties and had picked one issue for determination that the Board was justified by its action to demote the petitioner by two grade levels.
She said the petitioner erred by having a private pharmacy which was against the state public service rule, stressing that the claim that the drugs was for his private pharmacy, saying that the drugs should have no business in his office in Eku.
The lawmaker said the committee recommended that the two grade levels demotion of Pharmacist Kelvil Onome Onyivwi should be upheld and that the petitioner should be dismissed for lack of merit.
The recommendations of the committee were adopted following a motion by the Majority leader Hon Tim Owhefere and was unanimously adopted.
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