From TUNDE RAHEEM, Akure
Ondo State Commissioner for Transport, Mr Nicolas Tofowomo yesterday threw decorum to the wind as he openly slapped a director in the Ministry of Works, Mr M.J Afeniforo severally over a trivial issue. The commissioner was said to have approached the director for a tractor but Afeniforo was said to have told the commissioner that the tractors were already on various sites.
It was gathered that Afeniforo also told the commissioner that the Commissioner for Works, Gboye Adegbenro was aware of the development and asked him to call to verify. But Tofowomo, howev,er allegedly the commissioner for works and told him that the director of mechanical had diverted the tractors to his home town.
The director, it was learnt cautioned Tofowomo not to lie against him since he was saying the tractors were diverted to Ilara-Mokin. The commissioner was furious and slapped the director several times for arguing with him, an attitude sources in the ministry said had become common with Tofowomo. The development triggered the anger of workers of the ministry, who trooped out to protest injustice meted out on their senior officer and the commissioner, who sensed danger left hurriedly to his office.
The protest was later hijacked by the state chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC), who converged on the premises of the ministry to protest the assault on Afeniforo. But the intervention of the Chairman of the Joint Negotiation Council, Mr. Solomon Adelegan saved the situation, as workers were poised to show the commissioner the way out of the ministry. The aggrieved workers vowed to deal with the commissioner if he did not stop what they called animalistic behaviour.
The Head of Service, Mrs. Kosemani Kolawole, invited the assaulted director and the permanent secretary, probably with a view to resolving the matter . All efforts to get the embattled commissioner to comment on the issue proved abortive as he did not respond to the calls put to him.
Thug working in government, what gave him the right to slap fellow human being he(Commissioner) should be sacked..shame!
In U S. when an animal attacks human being; we put them to sleep.
I think it happened in this Ondo State before.
There must be something animalistic in their nature.
I may be wrong, though.
i think you call yourself a pastor? why such comment? a man of God is expected to guide/watch whatever he says. ask God for forginess
pls.
helo Ondo , pls check your leaders cos i am afraid
THAT COMISSIONER IS A MAD DOG IN A HUMAN SHAPE, PERIOD.
Na the man mumu I go slap my own back hot hot
100 gbosa for you bro! l will also reply to the commissioner with serious ‘omota’ blows but l trust Lagos.
Commissioner slapd a fellow worker over a trival arguement..its only in nigeria u kan hear dis..nigeria z an animal kingdom PERIOD
I thot these people were civilised? what is the head of service resolving and why Dr Mimiko has not sacked this commissioner?
That commissioner must pay dearly for it in any way possible !!!
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what a stupid commissioner with a stupid act
May be that Commissioner must be an else soldier and soldiers are not needed in the civil service. The Commissioner should go to where he belong – the barracks.
It used to be a case of Power corrupts, in the case of Ondo State and recently Katsina State, Power intoxicates.. An animal will not behave like that. It is simply a case of NEVER SEE COME SEE.
The Commissionaire is not at fault it is the whole system, there is no respect for the law if we have one, the only thing we have in Nigeria is absolute power, every body want be be the boss, wife have no equal right like husband, children hardly have any contribution to what is going on in the family, in short things are upside down. This will never happen in the develop world, where there is law and the law is above every body, I don’t think the President of United State have any immunity while in office. We will free ourselves from these mess soon.
the case of ondo state is quite unimaginable but the so called commissioner should shown his way home. he doesnt deserve to live where people are. in a real sense, he does not possess all the attributes of a good leader. he should be sacked in order for him to learn his lesson.
jaja of motor park state government of Ondo state.
Thd commisioner is an animal, period
I trust our action governor cos he is a man of peace, this is why oba osupa was sent out of palace for beaten his wife in the public. So commissioner ready to quit cos we are not in agagu’s regime. Oloburuku
Sue him to court and coolect your damages and it should be in the range of 200 million as settlement NO NEGOTIATION. A director is a career officer and a commissioner is a bloody political post
Am very in line with mr.Deji.I will slap him back sharperly sharperly.now that he is denying,let him deny also that I slap him back period
Mimiko must do the right thing and sack this buffoon, otherwise his credibility as a progressive leader will be rubished. The director should drag the assailant to court for GBH, to teach people like the barbaric commissioner a lesson.