Facts have emerged how Diamond Bank Managing Director, Uzoma Dozie, tricked 393 workers sacked by the bank to withdraw the case the filed against the financial institution without paying them.

Rather than pay the sacked workers, Diamond Bank has resorted to playing “hide and seek” with the National Assembly and the affected staff.

Dozie had been summoned to appear before the House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions in January with the aim to resolve the matter which have been pending before it, but Dozie flaunted the order and rather sent the Head Human Capital Management of the bank, Mr. Gabriel Nwokeafor, to stand in for him.

Findings revealed that Nwokeafor, speaking under oath, deceived and lied to the House committee that his bank was ready to settle the matter in a bid to buy more time. it was further learnt that after a meeting in Abuja on January 19 between Diamond Bank and seven representatives of the sacked workers, the bank agreed to pay the severance/redundancy benefits as computed, but only on the condition that the loans collected by the ex-workers will be deducted and the balance paid to them.

Till date Diamond Bank has not paid a single dime to the affected workers. And to further show that the agreement by the bank is nothing but a camouflage, Nwokeafor on March, 28 refused to appear before the House committee. He rather sent two lawyers who refuted the agreements he made with the ex-workers on the ground that the case was still in court.

The ex-workers, dancing to the tunes of Dozie subsequently withdrew the case from court without knowing the implication of their action. This move however became their undoing as Nwokeafor on the April 24 came forth to say that although he cannot deny knowledge of the agreement he signed with the ex-workers and their Counsel and the withdrawal of the case in court “there is no way the decision he reached with the complainants could be wholly binding as the CEO/MD of the bank was not present at the time.”

But, he did not know that the entire decisions at the meeting were recorded otherwise he would not have written the contrary to the committee as investigation show that Diamond Bank which claims to be a bank for the people has been speaking from the two sides of its mouth as the House committee was taken aback with the statements of the Head, Director of Human Capital calling on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to resolve the matter or advice the House on how best to handle the matter since the ex-worker has been deceived into withdrawing the matter from the court.

Furthermore, before the case was withdrawn from the National Industrial Court, Diamond bank succeeded in stalling the hearing nine times at the National Assembly, with the hearing slated for July 16 making it the 17th time the lawmakers will seat to listen to Dozie reel out lies as he has always done through Nwokeafor.

All efforts made to reach Diamond Bank Media Department proved abortive as calls placed to their phone line and text messages sent were not replied as at the time of writing this report.

http://meganews.com.ng/2018/07/23/how-diamond-bank-tricked-sacked-workers/

Na wa ooo [sup][/sup]

It's normal, the rich keeps exploiting the poor to add to their endless quest for wealth.

Since we have poor labour laws and even have poor implementation policy for the small yeye laws we have.

No wonder institutions keep exploiting workers, including all these yeye Lebanese, Indians who keep treating Nigerians like shit.

This country still get a long way