MTN Nigeria on Monday warned that should there be attacks on its facilities, it might be forced to close shop and 99 per cent of its over 6,000 workforce in the country, who are Nigerians, would be thrown into the labour market.

It also said that calls for the boycott of its services were unjustified as such an action would affect its support chain, which could cause another 500,000 Nigerians to lose their means of livelihood.

The company stated this in Lagos some hours after two groups protested in its Abuja and Benin offices against the killing of foreigners in its home country, South Africa.

According to the Corporate Service Executive, MTN Nigeria, Mr. Wale Goodluck, there are only 12 expatriates working for the company in the country, compared to a workforce of 6,000 Nigerians.

Goodluck said, “So, if people go ahead with their threats to attack our facilities, what that means is that we may be forced to close down the business in Nigeria and about 6,000 Nigerians that make up 99 per cent of our workforce will be unemployed.

“Then, when you look at our support chain, we have about 500,000 Nigerians gainfully employed. So, boycotting our services simply means destroying so many other Nigerian businesses and making over 500,000 other Nigerians to lose their jobs.

“This business supports a lot of businesses across the length and breadth of Nigeria. Many of the businesses that are affiliated to South Africa are in the retail space, supporting the growth of Nigeria and employing so many Nigerians.”

He noted that the company had spent in excess of $15bn on capital expenditure growing the telecommunications business in Nigeria.

“We see no revenge of Xenophobia and we commend the role the Nigerian High Commissioner in South Africa has played; at least there has been no fatality on the part of any Nigerian,” Goodluck added.

http://www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/xenophobia-mtn-nigeria-warns-of-6000-job-losses/

lalasticlala

na just mouth dem dey make sha. If we lose the jobs, you lose your company. you can't threaten us on our own soil.

Yeah that's true....

Make una sell am to a nigerian

I hope Nigerians won't hurt Nigerians all in the name of retaliation of what is happening in far away south africa...


An eye for an eye would make over 6000 nigerians jobless...

MTN, can you please keep your job loss warning.

Nigerians are not barbaric, we have no plans of attacking MTN facilities anywhere on our soil.


But we are sending our strong warnings to South African government to take a decisive action against the senseless action of your vampires, no country has monopoly of violence.

Let MTN Nigeria pass the message across in strong terms.

asadike:
Make una sell am to a nigerian

Mike ipoki is the current CEO of mtn nigeria, so mtn nigeria is under a nigerian...

Kul

The mUmu people dey threaten and blackmail Nigerians sef!
Wetin we no go see!
Instead of them to sternly warn their govt and their people to keep their xenophobic ass in check, they're making threats and blackmailing Nigerians.
Thunder go fire una!

He who has ears. Irate Nigerians that are calling for the closure of MTN should understand the consequences. MTN is a law abiding company doing in business in Nigeria, the events occurring in their originating country shouldn't be used as an excuse to promote further divisions between the countries. They're a major stakeholder in the Nigerian economy and we should give them the respect they deserve. We should boycott Shell and other IOCs that degrade our environments with their business operations. Besides, its hypocrisy that a country like ours with a rich history of human rights abuses would seek revenge over acts human rights abuses in another country.

They are crazy, the underpaid staffs? or the overused staffs?

What happens to the ones Nigerians already lost in South Africa.

Well, I do not support reprisal at all, we are way too educated for that.

Hmm , true talk...


And i'm not ready to part with my MTN sim(s)

Hmmm. This is serious

He is right but he should have presented that better. He made it sound like Nigeria needs MTN more than it needs Nigerians. All he said is how much problem the closure of the company would bring to Nigeria. He sounded as if the company is running a charity organisation in Nigeria, as if they are not reaping us off.
I believe in a diplomatic approach to ending the xenophobic attacks but all south Africans should stand up to say no to this barbaric acts of their people.

I sincerely hope Nigerians don't do anything stupid, we can still be the forbearing brother we used to be. Don't let ur fellow bro lose their jobs over this. Much has been lost, we can't afford to lose more

let's apply caution plz! we ain't canibals like madibas

Is that a threat or what?
Thank your star it's during jonathan's regime & not Obj

Mtn pretending as if dey got nothing 2 lose. Mtcheew.

slimmy05:
They are crazy, the underpaid staffs? or the overused staffs?

What happens to the ones Nigerians already lost in South Africa.

Well, I do not support reprisal at all, we are way too educated for that.

Well you will have to blame nigerians for that, since most of the departments is outsourced to nigerian companies and companies are responsible for the exploitation and under payment of staffs in their quest to make profit...

Well
We Nigerians only have *starting* *initial gragra*

Ofcus we will adapt
See reverse psychology na
Chai

Glo and Etisalat will employ them..
Better still we revive Mtel
You can't scare us
Stop those xenophobic idiots or get the f4ck out

Make the close down yeye MtN we no dey give free credit

Are they threatening us

chibuike65:
IGBO phobia will soon start in Nigeria









Bad people









Say No to IGBO phobia

u get sense so?

Omo see threat...una dey craze...before you people came people are employed and after you people left people will still be employed..nobody or company is indispensable...we will just suffer and miss you people for 3 month, after that everybody will know you are gone for good.

Mchew

Okay we don hear sha, we go reconsider but MTN suppose do promo for us just to calm us down... If na just 2GB data for #500