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Tuesday 27 November 2012

Ex-banker Bows To Pressure, Suspends Hunger Strike

Odunaro being attended to inside Lagos State ambulance ... on Monday. Photo; Temitayo Famutimi.

Remember that some days back, I posted a story about an ex-banker who worked with the scrapped Hallmark bank in Nigeria. He went on hunger strike because his non-payment of his terminal benefit has suspended the strike after 14 days (READ STORY HERE). Seriously?? The man went the whole 14 days taking nothing? This man is great and determined.

The  suspension of the protest followed spirited appeal by a representation from the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, and officials from the Lagos office of the Public Complaints Commission.



Senior Special Assistant to Fashola on Justice Sector Reforms, Lanre Akinsola, who led a team of legal, welfare and medical officials to the tent Odunaro had turned to his home on Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Lagos, promised to intervene.

After persuasion and engagement by the state officials and consultation with members of the Association of Ex-Staff of Non-Consolidated Bank, who had gathered at the site which lasted for about three hours, Odunaro who clocked 53 on Monday announced the suspension of the protest.

As soon as he announced the suspension, the medical team from the Lagos State Ambulance Service who  had been waiting for hours led him into an ambulance marked LA 167 A08 at about 3:09pm and took him to the Medical Emergency of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital for medical attention.

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