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Lagos Rail Project: Workers Protest As CCECC Sacks 500 by CastroTbb(m): 11:03pm On Jul 22, 2015 |
Hundreds of staff and casual workers employed by
the China Civil Engineering and Construction
Corporation, CCECC, for the Lagos Blue Line Light Rail
project today stormed the entrance of the Lagos
Governor’s Office to protest the sack of about 500
workers by the corporation.
The wokers stormed the Governor’s Office, Alausa in
Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria on Wednesday
afternoon with placards to protest their unjust sack
by the management of CCECC without severance
package.
The workers, in a protest letter to Governor
Akinwunmi Ambode said many of them had been
employed by the company for the past five years and
were laid off without any form of payment,
demanding that the governor intervene in their plight
to ensure that what duly belonged to them was paid
by CCECC.
Spokesperson of the protesters, Mark Okila, who lost
one arm while working for CCECC said the sacked
worker said the protesters would want CCECC to pay
the casual workers sacked N600,000 severance
package and the workers laid off N800,000 several
package.
“We were deprived of our rights while working for
the company in such a way that the company will
offer us a job without appointment letters. Even
when they employ most of their workers for the
space of five years, they will not convert them to
staff.
“We are treated like slaves in the company and
whenever we try to defend our rights, they will start
dismissing us from work. They will say that if we are
not ready to work in accordance with their policies,
we should leave,” he said.
Kila lamented that casual workers with CCECC earned
N550 per day while staff were paid N850 per day,
adding that issues of safety had been jeopadised by
the company as lots of industrial accidents had
occurred during work-hour.
Mark Okila, ost one arm while working for CCECC
“We were giving appointment without any safety
induction certification and safety gadgets. This has
led many workers to have permanent disabilities and
others even death in the process of working for the
company and nothing serious has been done about
it.
“We are seeking the intervention of the governor for
justice to be done in this matter of abuse of citizen’s
right by CCECC,” he said.
He vowed that the sacked workers would shut down
the site of the rail project by tomorrow until their
entitlements were fully paid by CCECC.
The protesters stated that in the process of working
for the company, Mr. Mark Okila was involved in an
accident which led to his right arm being amputated
while Mr. Aondowase Fidelis lost his eye and Mr
Moses Ajar lost his left thumb while working for the
company.
According to Fidelis, who lost one of his eyes, he was
working with a firing machine on 26 April, 2015 when
the blade of the machine cut, with a piece of it
entering one of his eyes.
He was rushed to the Lagos University Teaching
Hospital, LUTH, only to be told that he had lost one of
his eyes and could not see with it till now, adding that
the company promised to compensate him, but that
nothing had been done about it till now.
Addressing the protesters, the Chief of Staff to the
Lagos Governor, Olukunle Ojo said the state
government would call the protesters for a meeting
next week, assuring that their entitlement would
surely be paid.
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Re: Lagos Rail Project: Workers Protest As CCECC Sacks 500 by nnachukz(m): 11:35pm On Jul 22, 2015 |
op add stew to make this post perfect. |
Re: Lagos Rail Project: Workers Protest As CCECC Sacks 500 by onoerime: 3:10pm On Jul 23, 2015 |
nnachukz:nothing like stew. That is the true story |
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