Generator explosion kills OSRC engineer

A staff of the engineering department of the Ondo State Radio Vision Corporation (OSRC), Mr. Rotimi Fagbemi, at the weekend died of generator explosion.

Sources said the deceased’s body was severely mutilated when the generator exploded and slashed him into pieces.

It was learnt that the faulty generator had allegedly been serving the media outfit as the only source of power in the past one year.

The incident was said to have instantly led to suspension of

transmission while the workers on duty wailed and accused the management of total neglect of the station.

Many workers who spoke in confidence said their destiny had been tied to the wisdom of the Corporation’s Director- General.

They said that they had resigned to fate as previous efforts to get the attention of Governor Olusegun Mimiko were turned against their leaders who were arrested, detained and subsequently suspended before being redeployed from the station.

Union leaders in OSRC and other workers protested a few months ago over the alleged poor working condition and maladministration by its management.

The protest led to the setting up of an investigative panel headed by the former Head of Service (HoS), Barr. Ajose Kudehinbu, which made various recommendations to overhaul the entire system in the corporation for better output.

A portion of the panel’s recommendations reads: “OSRC with our findings is a place where a reasonable human being should not wish to work, hence the State government should urgently intervene to bail the Corporation out.”

The report, however, did not see the light of the day.

Instead, all the workers and union leaders who appeared before the Kudehinbu’s panel to give an insight into myriads of problems in the Corporation were sanctioned.

Some of them were said to have been re-deployed, demoted or denied their normal entitlements for agitating for better working condition in the establishment.

When contacted on the incident, Police Spokesman, Wole Ogodo, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), confirmed the incident.

He said men from the State Police Command had visited the Orita-Obele premises of the Corporation.

He added that the corpse had been deposited at an undisclosed mortuary.

Ogodo, who described the incident as sad Commiserated with the family of the deceased, OSRC management and staff as well as Ondo State Government.