By Achadu Gabriel, kaduna
A staff of Federal Neuro-psychiatric Hospital, Barnawa, Kaduna, Mr. Kayode G. Obisanya has raised an alarm over alleged refusal of the hospital to reinstated him back to the institution in compliance with Court Judgement and Orders.
Mr. Abisanya who’s appointment was allegedly illegally terminated in 2015, by a Medical Director of the hospital, challenged the matter at the National industrial Court, Kaduna, through his Legal Counsel, Barrister Ibinola O.O.O Meshacq, of A.T. Usman -Ibonola & Co.
In an interview with Journalists in Kaduna penultimate Tuesday 22nd September 2025, Mr. Abisanya said that his appointment was illegally terminated in 2015, by the then medical Director of the Hospital.
Dissatisfied with the reason for the termination of his appointment, Mr. Kayode dragged the hospital management to the National Industrial Court in Kaduna, and got judgement and Orders to be reinstated and paid all his arrears of salaries and promotion, after six months in Court.
According to Mr. Kayode, rather than complying with the court judgement and Orders, the hospital management advised him to forget payment of all his salary arrears and promotion arrears, and resumed work, saying that the hospital has no money to pay his outstanding benefits.
He further told journalists that the Management threatened him with Appeal Court through their legal officer when he declined the advise to forget payment of salary arrears and promotion arrears, and they later went for an Appeal against the industrial court judgement in his favor.
He said, they persisted and said that also they’ve right of Appeal, scaring him that doing so could take yet another years of adjournment, time consuming and money, telling hm to resume work and forget payment of arrears, but Mr. Abisanya declined and remain Adamant against all odds.
The hospital management, according to Mr. Abisanya later went to Appeal Court when he refused to heed to their advise to forget payment of arrears and promotion, but the Appeal Court upheld his judgement and dismissed their Appeal.
However, in a letter addressed to the hospital Medical Director by Counsels and solicitors to Mr. Abisanya, dated 22nd September 2025, directed that all terms of the judgement be complied within 30 days of delivery.
The letter made available to.our correspondent is entitled: “Re: enforcement of judgement in suit No.NICN/ABJ/229/1015–MR. Kayode G. Abisanya v.Federal Neuro-psychiatric Hospital, Barnawa, Kaduna & Anor”.
It added that” You’ll recall that our client instituted legal action at National Industrial Court of Nigeria, kaduna, challenging the legality of his posting security office at the main entrance of the hospital premises of the 1st Defendant and his subsequent terminated and stoppage of salary from 1st Defendant, amongst others”.
Accordingly, it added that “On 9th November 2021, the Honourable court deliver judgement in favour of our client. The court further directed that all terms of the judgement be complied within 30 days of delivery.
“However, the judgement was appealed to a Court of Appeal Holden at by the Defendant/Applicants in south no. CA/ABJ/PRE/REA/CV/85MI/2022.The appellate consequently gave judgment in favour of our client on the 20 June 2025 which dismissed the appeal.
“However, uptil date out client has not been reinstated nor have the mandatory component of the judgement been settled. We therefore demand the immediate and full compliance with the judgement of the Court,now final and binding. In the light of the above, kindly confirm in writing, our client date of resumption.
“Ensure all outstanding entitlements and damages are processed without further delay. Failure to comply within seven daya of this letter shall have out client no option but to initiate enforcement against all relevant parties. Please treat with the urgency and seriousness it deserves”, it stated.
Contacted for clarification, the management staff of the hospital who spoke through the spokesman, Mr. Haruna Usman said the Phychiatric Hospital has no problem with reinstating Mr. Kayode Abisanya, attributing the delayed to lack of constituted board.
He also said that the total of Court cases faced with the hospital was 17 in number when the new MD assumed office, and were therefore transferred to the federal Ministry of health, Abuja and handled by the legal department of the ministry that now reserved the right to direct the implementation of the court judgement and Orders.
“With regard to Mr. Kayode’s issue, we, as a psychiatric hospital, we don’t have any reason not to reinstate him, but we have to get order, like I said, you should know that we don’t have a board, right now.
“The board has not yet been constituted, and as you are rightly informed by the legal team
of this hospital; the case had been transferred. It was not the only case. We have about 17 cases when the MD came to office.
“We are able to settle about four out of court cases, and the remaining one has been transferred
to the mother Ministry. Know fully well that these cases have been there since 2015, and we have new management now.
“We have about two to three management before the coming of the present one. So, and since that time, they have been transferred to Ministry of Health, the legal officers in that ministry have been the one involved in the case.
“The management has no problem with him being reinstated. The only thing is we are waiting for order from the mother ministry, which is Federal Ministry of Health, the legal team, to say, to give us an order to reinstate him”, he said.
But the illegally sacked staff, Mr Abisanya told journalists few days ago that he was bounced back on two occasions when he took letter of reinforcement to both the hospital and Ministry, even when the hospital alleged that it has furnished the mother Ministry with letter attached with Kayode’s lawyer’s letter.
