CONFIDENTIAL

NIGERIA SOCIAL INSURANCE TRUST FUND

No 46 Dennis Osadebay Way, Asaba Delta State
Asaba Regional Office
MEMO

Ref. No: NSITF/ASBREG/ADMIN/VOL.1/681

Date: 24th June, 2020

To: Oshiokhamale Vital (Principal Manager, Aa/6831)

Through: Regional Manager, Abuja Regional Office

From: Chairman, Senior Staff Asaba Regional Disciplinary Committee

Subject: FINDINGS & CONCLUSIONS OF ASABA SENIOR REGIONAL DISCIPLINARY

COMMITTEE MEETING OF THE 11TH OF OCTOBER, 2019

Consequent on an initial report of a detention incident received at the Regional office, together
with a separate case of gross misconduct of four principal managers (namely Babadi Emeka
Aa/6281, Mude Okiemute Aa/8425, Arijaje Charles Aa/8405 and Oshiokhamale Vital Aa/6831)
received from the Benin branch manager and following investigations and interviews
conducted thereafter with your good selves on the 20 th September, 2019, 26th September,
2019 culminating into a disciplinary Committee meeting of the 11 th of October, 2019 and
joining complaints you brought against your branch manager along with the other principal
managers.

Kindly recall that your complaint conveyed through your jointly signed letter dated 3 rd
September, 2019 accused the branch manager of the following infractions:

1. Taking of bribe to process certificate of compliance (from Board Walk Project Services
and Pajib Company) and an incident of crutches being thrown at the branch manager
because of a disagreement after a consideration had been paid.

2. Divide and rule style of leadership.

3. High appetite for power and greed for money especially out–of–pocket expenses
(OPE).

4. Borrowing money from colleagues for his personal needs and delays repayment.
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5. Contempt by staff towards him as a result of his behavior of borrowing money.

6. Improper resignation procedure by four (4) staff who left/exited service and travelled
abroad and allegations of receiving money to actualize this process. Also, accusation
of cloning of documents to suit this purpose.

7. Accusation of redeployment of a HR staff to Enforcement Department because the staff

had made certain enquiries about records of staff who had exited the service of the Fund
and travelled abroad.

8. The branch manager is also accused of stepping up the level of intimidation, blackmail and
threatening that the authorities were more inclined to belief what he reports to them.

Following the said Asaba Regional Disciplinary Committee meeting of the 11 th October, 2019,
you would recall that you were unable to substantiate your accusations on the branch manager
when required to do so. In fact, in some instances while you responded, you indicated that you
heard that the event happened the way you had described it on the jointly signed compliant
letter. You may recall, you were reminded that your accusations concerning improper
resignation of four branch staff who travelled abroad and collection of a consideration to
actualize this process was a case that was investigated in 2018 when it was brought before a
Regional Disciplinary Committee meeting and when this could not be substantiated along with
other accusations leveled against the branch manager at the time, the plaintiff received a
warning letter from the Head office.

Regarding your accusation of greed for OPE, you will recall that the branch accountant (Mr.
Wilson Okojie) was invited in the course of the meeting to throw more light on the operation of
OPE in your branch wherein his comments were at variance with your allegations.

Similarly, further enquiries made through the telephone at Board Walk Project Services and
Pajib Limited concerning your accusations of collecting a bribe to procure certificate of
compliance, revealed that there was no case of bribery. The representatives of the companies,
namely Prince Peter and Ogundele Telbet respectively dismissed the accusation and stated
that the branch manager never demanded or collected any bribe from them. They also
confirmed that there was no incident of crutches being thrown at the branch manager for his
inability to deliver on their request after a consideration had been made.

These were very grave accusations that could not be supported and you would recall that the
committee members were indeed quite expressive of this observation. In the same way, you
could not provide convincing narratives to other accusations made other than depend on
assumptions or conjectures.
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On the matter of gross misconduct as brought by your branch manager, and for which you
were served with a query, the committee viewed your actions generally as improper and
amounts to insubordination and total disrespect for the office of the branch manager and by
extension constituted authority as provided under section 06:03 of the staff condition of
service.

In the course of investigation and disciplinary committee meeting, you had exhaustedly
described the events leading up to and the restriction of your branch manager from leaving his
office during your alteration with him. From any position this matter is viewed, you erred by not
restraining yourself and denying him his inalienable right of free movement at that moment
regardless of whatever issues you wished to discuss with him.

In another case brought against you, you had over stayed the number of days earlier approved
for you and delayed supporting the consequent extra days with a medical certificate more so
as you claimed your absence was as a result of ill health. In the same vain, on your eventual
resumption, you did not deem it immediately necessary to regularize your documentations with
your branch management further resulting into a complicated issue at the time.

Beyond all of this, you deliberately boycotted a scheduled branch meeting for which no tenable
reason was given especially when viewed against the information available indicating that it
was a collective action by the four (4) principal managers not to be in attendance.

In view of your deliberate action of wasting the committee’s time and resources knowing that
you could not substantiate your accusations against your branch manager or providing a proof
(i.e. medical report) as requested to support your absence from the office.
Also for your inability to provide convincing reasons for boycotting your scheduled branch
meeting of the 13th of September 2019, you are hereby requested to forward an unreserved
apology to your former branch manager and the Asaba Regional Disciplinary Committee to be
received not later than the 10th of July, 2020

Bino N. Okonweze