Staff Audit: Osun Workers Stage Walk Out Over ‘Poor Human Relation’

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One of the workers at yesterday’s audit exercise said: “We were there today for the audi ng exercise; what I first no ced was that the woman (consultant) was being rude to everybody. We had judges among us today and the consultant could not accord those special and honourable people the desired respect. She walked out on everybody, complaining that the government doesn’t provide security for her.

“She later came back to apologise; it was at that me that we also staged a walkout, we insisted we were not connuing with the exercise again. We had been informed of her poor attude by our colleague who she had earlier attended to. She is not fit for that serious exercise.”

When contacted, the Chairman of Trade Union

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Congress (TUC), Osun chapter, Comrade Adekola Adebowale, confirmed that the workers walked out of the hall because of the a tude of the consultant.

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How Social Economic Factor, Sexual Abuse Cause Mental Illness In Children - Expert

AConsultant Psychiatrist at Osun State University Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, Dr. Adeola Oduyebo has revealed how socioeconomic factor and sexual abuse lead to mental health illness in children who are within zero to 17 years.

According to Oduyebo in an interview with OSUN DEFENDER yesterday, a child can develop depression when she suffers neglect or depriva on as a result of her family’s inability to cater for her.

The expert also noted that both physical and sexual abuse on children by their parents or caregivers can also lead to depression which can degenerate to mental health illness in them.

She disclosed that there are various kind of mental health illness in children like au sm, a en on deficit, among others.

Oduyebo stressed that children that are said to be difficult in behaviour are more at risk of facing mental health challenge than those that are easy going.

She said: “There are different factors that can cause mental health illness in children who are within the age of 0-17. These include gene c factor which means there’s something in the gene of that person or the composi on of that person’s gene that is different and makes the person predisposed to having that kind of problem.

“There are different kinds of mental health illness in children like au sm, a en on deficit and other that have found to have gene c disposi on, including some other ones when people have psycho c problems and others.

“It’ is said that some children that are said to be difficult in behaviour are more at risk of facing that kind of problem than children that are said to be easy. It is said that those who are difficult children have tendency to have some more behavioral problems than those that are said to be easy children.

“We also have some of them that have inhibited temperament. That means they are fearful and easily upset. You will find out that some of those people may have tendency to have depression.

“Another one is Social economic factor. This is a problem when the family is large and there’s a lot of overcrowding and there is no proper care. These are issues that affect the social economic state that put the child in a state of neglect or depriva on or the child is being physically abused by a significant person, a caregiver, parent, scapegoating and all that or sexually abuse.

“All those can become a reason for a child to expose to stresses that can pre- disposed to mental illness problem. solved the state government of any wrongdoing in the audi ng exercise, said the consultant needed to improve herself on manners, declaring that she needed to stop trea ng the workers as her employees.

“In some cases, one of the parents will have mental disorder; if the mother for example has mental disorder, the care of such child will have problem and the mother will relate to the child in the cause of experience she’s having”.

The TUC Chairman, in a telephone interview with OSUN DEFENDER, said: “It is true that the workers walked out on the consultant because they were not being treated nicely.

The state government doesn’t mean any harm on the staff audit; the Governor needs to know the actual number of workers, where there is shortage of staff and which sector he needs to recruit more workers for. I can tell you that the Governor is not planning to sack anybody or slash our salary.

“However, the consultant on this audi ng exercise has not been doing well on her approach. She really needs to improve on her manners. She is not our employer, we subject ourselves to the government’s direcve, not hers. She is always been rude to the workers.”

However, the consultant, who spoke