EXIT OF BANWAT: A Public Shame   

EXIT OF BANWAT: A Public Shame   

By: Balami Lazarus     

I would like our followers and any other reader to note that this is NO longer news but as Columnists we can revisit events/ happenings from a different perspective to stimulate and arouse awareness. Regimes and tenure are offices/ positions held by individuals on trust for and on behalf of the public and are a rare privilege to serve humanity in the best possible ways and effort. 

While some see it as an opportunity to play- god and make nonsense of their subordinates and the establishment, organization or the institution they are charged to lead and bring in  positive changes for the good and betterment of the society at large. But many forgot why they were there.   

The existence of Professor Edmund Banwat the erstwhile Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) for two terms of eight years, was  a disaster and a public disgrace of the highest shameful feast for public consumption.    

When Banwat was CMD,, his tenure was characterized by catalogue of strikes, collapse of medical services, teaching and research disappeared due to his administrative deficiency resulting to a near break- down of this famous tertiary hospital where patients, staff, doctors, students and other workers went through tough and hard times that led to death of some staff. His period was full of red ink and failures which members of the greater Jos community are aware of.   

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I don’t think Professor Edmund Banwat ever thought that someday he will leave the office of the CMD of JUTH? And if he does, never in such a shameful way carried out by the same people he once wrongfully led and held under his Iagotic administrative claws suffocating them with all manners of deprivations and threats. His days were like life in “The Castle of Otranto” (1764)0 by Horace Walpole where fear, terror and uncertainty resides gripping the occupants likewise the days of Failure Edmund Banwat.   

From all indications, a new day has come to JUTH under the able, smart, intelligent, hardworking and likeable Dr. Pokop Bupwatda going by what most members of JUTH said of him. He was also said to have an inside knowledge and experience of this tertiary hospital long before his appointment as CMD in acting capacity. All the good things said of him were confirmed by Mr. Adams Ebuga, Chairman of Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) of Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) in his recent interview granted to Challenge Today Online.    

Therefore, there are high expectations for performance and service delivery from Dr. Bupwatda the Acting Chief Medical Director (CMD) by members of his immediate jurisdiction including the host community to distance himself from the shame of his predecessor that went viral on the social network handles.    I will from now on mount my telescope lens to watch carefully the happenings in and around JUTH focusing on Dr. Pokop Bupwatda’s administration.   

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EXIT OF BANWAT: A Public Shame