Over 35 workers of the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, Ondo state are protesting the failure of the state government to reinstate them to their positions. The sacked staff worked with the institution’s primary and secondary schools and were laid off in 2019.

According to solicitors of the disengaged staff, Banjo Ayenakin & Co, the news making rounds by the management of the Polytechnic that they have been reabsorbed into service was untrue.

The workers who wrote an open letter to the Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu maintained that before the disengagement; they committed no offence and were never queried. They insisted that they are yet to be re-engaged as directed and were owed several months’ salaries and entitlements.