The Oyo State House of Assembly has ordered the state’s Commissioner of Police, Ayodele Sonubi, and the leadership of Operation Burst, to provide a thorough report on the event that resulted in the regrettable death of a casual employee during a recent demonstration at Sumal Foods Limited in Ibadan.
A representative of Ibadan South-west Constituency 1, Yusuf Adebisi, brought up the sad event for deliberation during plenary on Wednesday.
Mr Adebisi noted that several regrettable incidents had resulted in innocent lives being lost as a result of the poor welfare of casual workers.
He expressed displeasure at the level of casualisation and maltreatment of Nigerians working in some multinational companies in the nation.
He recalled how, years ago, a 21-year-old University of Ibadan student, Gbadebo Richard, who had taken up a job at a factory in Ibadan as a holiday job, fell into a soap-making machine and died in the process.
Also, he noted that a similar unfortunate…