Leading e-commerce firm in Nigeria, Jumia.com has sacked 187 out of 200 workers engaged since it opened shop in 2012, sources told National Mirror.

The online retailer, which marked its second anniversary a few weeks ago is said to have within its first year of operations hired about 200 employees and fired about 187 of them while it now engages temporary staffs as a cost saving measure.

In an attempt to consolidate on funding, Jumia.com was said to have sold a major equity to Rocket Internet, a global e-venture company, which afterwards laid-off about 50 workers of Jumia. com which was then compelled to resort to outsourcing support functions.

Also, following the merger of other e-ventures under Jumia. com, some staffs were also reportedly sacked, all within a year.

However, the CEOs of the Africa Internet Holding, which controls Rocket Internet, Jeremy Hodara and Sacha Poignonnec, told National Mirror that the information was not correct.

“The numbers are false. In the past one year, only one per cent of our over 500 employees resigned. We employ more than 1,500 people in nine African countries.

Jumia alone has over 500 employees scattered around in six cities many of them under the age of 30 and most important 95 per cent are Nigerians. We were looking for these local top notch experts for the last year and we hired them mainly from top universities.

“Now, we take care of everything we do directly in Lagos – whether it is marketing, customer’s services, logistics, sales, operations and IT. We are deeply committed to provide the best environment for every employee,” Hondara and Poignonnec said in a joint e-mail response to National Mirror. Also, the Public Relations Manager of Jumia.com, Mr. Afam Anyika refuted the mass sack at Jumia.com.

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