The staff of Ciscon Nigeria Limited owned by former PETAN Chairman - Mr. Shawley Coker have been staging a massive protests at their gates for over one week on the non-payment of over 5 month Salaries.

The Staff's patience with Ciscon management nosedived after the Union held a meeting with Chevron(a major client of Ciscon) and discovered that Chevron and some other clients have been paying Ciscon for their services. The monies are alleged to have been paid into dollars and seems to have been paid into Mr. Shawley Coker's Backlays accounts in the USA. He has refused to release a portion for the payment of salaries. It was discovered that from April to date at Ciscon has received close to $1, 000,000 (one million dollars in payment) from various clients yet nothing has been paid to staff.

To prevent staff from tracking the payments through the Finance Dept, the MD directed only He receive alerts and tried to influence client organizations not to reveal that payment has been made so he could continue crying that he is being owed by clients.


Due to the non-payment of salaries from May till date, some staff have been unable to send their children back to school while others had to move their children to public schools. Shawley's kids on the other hand continue to party at a Las Vegas hotel that costs $5,000 a night with friends.

The non-payment of salaries to staff is not due to the downturn in the Oil and gas industry but a tactic by the MD to wriggle out of paying staff their terminal dues having tried different means. The MD in order to mess up Ciscon's account withdrew over $10m which he used to acquired two failed companies in the US. He also withdrew over $2m dollars from Ciscon account to OD Rentals and most recent;ly acquired two large parcels of land in Lagos through Mr. Yomi Orenuga - for a total of N1.3bn.

Another method he employed to siphon money out of Ciscon was the creation of Shawsand Estate a phony Estate company that has never erected a building. Shawley Coker transferred the Ciscon Buildings to the phantom Shawsand Estate and now makes Ciscon pay rent to Shawsand Estate for the buildings it owns. Ciscon is therefore paying a huge rent on its own building. This rent takes over 5o% of most of the departments profit.

In May when Ciscon was still owing over 4 months salaries, owing over 2years pension non remitted, owing vendors and suppliers over 1year, Ciscon paid Shawley Coker through the fake Shawsand Company - $1m dollars for rent. This was even a part payment as Ciscon pays Shawsand in dollars per square meter.

Rather than meet with Staff and structure a pay off plan, the MD ordered that the meeting with Union on terminal benefits be stopped. He is alleged to have said that "STARVATION IS A WEAPON OF WAR, STAFF ARE TALKING BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT YET STARVING". In other words he will deliberately not pay salaries to crumble the resolve of staff.

To further promote war on staff, The management refused to pay the staff HMO premium and called on the HMO provider to cut of staff's medical access. Staff who have not been paid for over 5 months salaries therefore have no medical access. Over the last one week, the Management has sent several groups of uniformed men to threaten and intimidate the staff to move from the gates but when the officers hear the story , the are shocked at the wickedness of Shawley Coker!

CISCON STAFF SAY NO! TO SLAVERY!!! WE SAY NO TO INTIMIDATION! THERE IS STILL LAW IN NIGERIA!

WE DEMAND THE PAYMENT OF OUR SALARIES AND AGREED BENEFITS!

PAY US OUR SALARIES! PAY US OUR BENEFITS!

Eyah

emeijeh:
Eyah

Nigerian business men and their inordinate ambition. Indeed "there was a country". Country with laws that are never obeyed by the elites does not deserve to exist. God will punish all the people who feel they can eat their cake and still have it. Imagine pension, tax, HMO, NHF not remitted despite deduction from staff salaries. Now he doesn't want to pay severance packages to dropped staff. Shawley Coker is a bastard. His children will have nothing to inherit at the end of the day. Amen