Bokoharam: TOP 100 MANAGERS' ORDEAL: A SHAME ON ECOBANK NIGERIA!

Ecobank Nigeria yesterday displayed a show of shame when it transported its Top 100 Manager from Lagos, Nigeria to Lome, Togo by road.

1. Ecobank is an ECOWAS-spread bank with branches across West Africa.

2. Recently, it made a decision to identify and specially empower (by training) its TOP 100 PERFORMING BRANCH MANAGERS (out of over 500 branches in West Africa) in Togo, their regional Head Office.

3. About 60 of these Top 100 performing managers are from Nigeria, and as seen as those who are responsible for over 80% of the bank’s income/profitability

4. Ecobank decided to transport its best staff to Togo for a special training by Road, rather than by Air, thereby risking the lives of their best Managers;

5. To ‘add salt to injury,’ Ecobank rather than employ the services of top-rated road transport companies like ABC to convey her staff to Lome, Togo, chose to convey them via 2 (two) rickety Ecobank staff buses;

6. Around 1pm yesterday (Sunday, July 7th 2013), one of the Ecobank staff buses broke down, leaving Ecobank best hands in the middle of nowhere along Badagry;

7. The staff were asked to wait while another staff bus, which was never serviced/prepared for a long journey, was arranged to the scene towards Badagry.

8. As a result, Ecobank Nigeria Top 100 got to Lome by 1.20am the following day (i.e. today, MONDAY!);

9. Of course, a lot of the staff must have developed cramps from the long, terrible road journey.

10. Other countries flew their staff to Lome, but Ecobank Nigeria chose to ‘trek’ with their staff;

11. All the Top Management Staff who travel out of the country, always do so with First-class air ticket.

12. And lastly, it was learnt that, some of the staff offered to pay for their own air ticket to Togo (considering the risk), but the bank pressured them to go as a “team.”


Now, the questions are:

a) Is this how a company—let alone a bank—should treat their best Managers/staff?

b) Why would Ecobank not spend a paltry N40,000 to transport her best Managers by air?

c) What if there was a fatal accident, since road transport is largely not as safe as Air transport?

d) And what if they were attacked by hoodlums (some of the staff are ladies, pretty ladies I mean)

e) Did Ecobank not realize that these people were the ones generating the major chunk of their revenue/profitability before treating them this way?

f) Were they going on a secondary school kind of excursion?

g) Do this people value lives of at all?—Let alone those of their best hands?

h) ...etc


Is this act not condemnable? As Nigerians, we should learn to condemn evil because we do not know where it will ‘berth’ the next day.

coputa: Your post shows too much hate for the bank..are you a staff of ecobank..,.their action cannot be condemn completely because you don't know their financial state...do you know that the cost of doing biz in nigeria is very high,compared to other countries, due to our infastructural decay and corruption...all these go a long way to affect staff welfare.....

Bokoharam: TOP 100 MANAGERS' ORDEAL: A SHAME ON ECOBANK NIGERIA!

Ecobank Nigeria yesterday displayed a show of shame when it transported its Top 100 Manager from Lagos, Nigeria to Lome, Togo by road.

1. Ecobank is an ECOWAS-spread bank with branches across West Africa.

2. Recently, it made a decision to identify and specially empower (by training) its TOP 100 PERFORMING BRANCH MANAGERS (out of over 500 branches in West Africa) in Togo, their regional Head Office.

3. About 60 of these Top 100 performing managers are from Nigeria, and as seen as those who are responsible for over 80% of the bank’s income/profitability

4. Ecobank decided to transport its best staff to Togo for a special training by Road, rather than by Air, thereby risking the lives of their best Managers;

5. To ‘add salt to injury,’ Ecobank rather than employ the services of top-rated road transport companies like ABC to convey her staff to Lome, Togo, chose to convey them via 2 (two) rickety Ecobank staff buses;

6. Around 1pm yesterday (Sunday, July 7th 2013), one of the Ecobank staff buses broke down, leaving Ecobank best hands in the middle of nowhere along Badagry;

7. The staff were asked to wait while another staff bus, which was never serviced/prepared for a long journey, was arranged to the scene towards Badagry.

8. As a result, Ecobank Nigeria Top 100 got to Lome by 1.20am the following day (i.e. today, MONDAY!);

9. Of course, a lot of the staff must have developed cramps from the long, terrible road journey.

10. Other countries flew their staff to Lome, but Ecobank Nigeria chose to ‘trek’ with their staff;

11. All the Top Management Staff who travel out of the country, always do so with First-class air ticket.

12. And lastly, it was learnt that, some of the staff offered to pay for their own air ticket to Togo (considering the risk), but the bank pressured them to go as a “team.”


Now, the questions are:

a) Is this how a company—let alone a bank—should treat their best Managers/staff?

b) Why would Ecobank not spend a paltry N40,000 to transport her best Managers by air?

c) What if there was a fatal accident, since road transport is largely not as safe as Air transport?

d) And what if they were attacked by hoodlums (some of the staff are ladies, pretty ladies I mean)

e) Did Ecobank not realize that these people were the ones generating the major chunk of their revenue/profitability before treating them this way?

f) Were they going on a secondary school kind of excursion?

g) Do this people value lives of at all?—Let alone those of their best hands?

h) ...etc


Is this act not condemnable? As Nigerians, we should learn to condemn evil because we do not know where it will ‘berth’ the next day.

Bokoharam: TOP 100
MANAGERS' ORDEAL: A SHAME ON ECOBANK NIGERIA!

Ecobank Nigeria yesterday displayed a show of shame when it transported
its Top 100 Manager from Lagos, Nigeria to Lome, Togo by road.

1. Ecobank is an ECOWAS-spread bank with branches across West Africa.

2. Recently, it made a decision to identify and specially empower (by
training) its TOP 100 PERFORMING BRANCH MANAGERS (out of over 500
branches in West Africa) in Togo, their regional Head Office.

3. About 60 of these Top 100 performing managers are from Nigeria, and
as seen as those who are responsible for over 80% of the bank’s
income/profitability

4. Ecobank decided to transport its best staff to Togo for a special
training by Road, rather than by Air, thereby risking the lives of their
best Managers;

5. To ‘add salt to injury,’ Ecobank rather than employ the services of
top-rated road transport companies like ABC to convey her staff to Lome,
Togo, chose to convey them via 2 (two) rickety Ecobank staff buses;

6. Around 1pm yesterday (Sunday, July 7th 2013), one of the Ecobank
staff buses broke down, leaving Ecobank best hands in the middle of
nowhere along Badagry;

7. The staff were asked to wait while another staff bus, which was never
serviced/prepared for a long journey, was arranged to the scene towards
Badagry.

8. As a result, Ecobank Nigeria Top 100 got to Lome by 1.20am the
following day (i.e. today, MONDAY!);

9. Of course, a lot of the staff must have developed cramps from the
long, terrible road journey.

10. Other countries flew their staff to Lome, but Ecobank Nigeria chose
to ‘trek’ with their staff;

11. All the Top Management Staff who travel out of the country,do so with First-class air ticket.

12. And lastly, it was learnt that, some of the staff offered to pay for
their own air ticket to Togo (considering the risk), but the bank
pressured them to go as a “team.”


Now, the questions are:

a) Is this how a company—let alone a bank—should treat their best
Managers/staff?

b) Why would Ecobank not spend a paltry N40,000 to transport her best
Managers by air?

c) What if there was a fatal accident, since road transport is largely
not as safe as Air transport?

d) And what if they were attacked by hoodlums (some of the staff are
ladies, pretty ladies I mean)

e) Did Ecobank not realize that these people were the ones generating
the major chunk of their revenue/profitability before treating them this
way?

f) Were they going on a secondary school kind of excursion?

g) Do this people value lives of at all?—Let alone those of their best
hands?

h) ...etc


Is this act not condemnable? As Nigerians, we should learn to condemn
evil because we do not know where it will ‘berth’ the next day.

Abu Mikey: The height of it al!!! GREEDINESS

James Lucia:

my dear dont mind him, if they traveled by road from Calabar to Lagos he would not have complained cos its in d same country. from Lagos to Lome is not up to 5 hours.

Bokoharam:


Since I heard of this from a very reliable source, I have not stopped being concerned. I am not a staff member of Ecobank (Yet, even if I am, does it change the reality of the wickedness?). There is also no hate involved. I even think you may be part of the executive that traded lives for money. I believe if your own relative left by road, and you had to keep wake from 8am when they set out till 1.30am the following day, when they arrived at Lome, coupled with staff bus breakdown (without security) in this horrible Nigeria and its borders, you would appreciate and think better.

We are NOT talking about Trainees here. We are talking about MANAGERS!!! There is nothing like 'financial state.' If cost of N40,000 (N80,000 to and fro) is too much for a global bank like Ecobank to absorb on behalf of its top managers, because of "...their financial state...," then, there is no need for Ecobank to be in business in Nigeria. Again, for the bank to identify these Top 100 managers, goes to show that they appreciate what those people are doing.

Secondly, the Nigeria Group contibutes larger chunk of Ecobank's returns globally. So, your argument cannot prevail.

The issue is: why would you subject your best hands to that kind of physically, emotional and psychological torture? That cannot happen in a place like Egypt.

It is time we addressed certain things rightly in NIgeria because strangers capitalise on our docility to castrate and emasculate our citizens.

Bokoharam: TOP 100 MANAGERS' ORDEAL: A SHAME ON ECOBANK NIGERIA!

Ecobank Nigeria yesterday displayed a show of shame when it transported its Top 100 Manager from Lagos, Nigeria to Lome, Togo by road.

1. Ecobank is an ECOWAS-spread bank with branches across West Africa.

2. Recently, it made a decision to identify and specially empower (by training) its TOP 100 PERFORMING BRANCH MANAGERS (out of over 500 branches in West Africa) in Togo, their regional Head Office.

3. About 60 of these Top 100 performing managers are from Nigeria, and as seen as those who are responsible for over 80% of the bank’s income/profitability

4. Ecobank decided to transport its best staff to Togo for a special training by Road, rather than by Air, thereby risking the lives of their best Managers;

5. To ‘add salt to injury,’ Ecobank rather than employ the services of top-rated road transport companies like ABC to convey her staff to Lome, Togo, chose to convey them via 2 (two) rickety Ecobank staff buses;

6. Around 1pm yesterday (Sunday, July 7th 2013), one of the Ecobank staff buses broke down, leaving Ecobank best hands in the middle of nowhere along Badagry;

7. The staff were asked to wait while another staff bus, which was never serviced/prepared for a long journey, was arranged to the scene towards Badagry.

8. As a result, Ecobank Nigeria Top 100 got to Lome by 1.20am the following day (i.e. today, MONDAY!);

9. Of course, a lot of the staff must have developed cramps from the long, terrible road journey.

10. Other countries flew their staff to Lome, but Ecobank Nigeria chose to ‘trek’ with their staff;

11. All the Top Management Staff who travel out of the country, always do so with First-class air ticket.

12. And lastly, it was learnt that, some of the staff offered to pay for their own air ticket to Togo (considering the risk), but the bank pressured them to go as a “team.”


Now, the questions are:

a) Is this how a company—let alone a bank—should treat their best Managers/staff?

b) Why would Ecobank not spend a paltry N40,000 to transport her best Managers by air?

c) What if there was a fatal accident, since road transport is largely not as safe as Air transport?

d) And what if they were attacked by hoodlums (some of the staff are ladies, pretty ladies I mean)

e) Did Ecobank not realize that these people were the ones generating the major chunk of their revenue/profitability before treating them this way?

f) Were they going on a secondary school kind of excursion?

g) Do this people value lives of at all?—Let alone those of their best hands?

h) ...etc


Is this act not condemnable? As Nigerians, we should learn to condemn evil because we do not know where it will ‘berth’ the next day.