Ayoolu: Lagos to Lome is 274kms by Google map

coputa: Where is their departure point..if it is from lagos,then there's nothing wrong with it,since from lagos to Togo is a relativeky short journey...you are not being realistic with your argument,...you said its the managers that account for the profit that the bank is making,what of the other workers,are they not as important as the managers without which no appreciable progress would be made in the bank....you said to fly each manager from lagos to Togo and back would cost the bank#80,000, multiply that by 100 people, that gives you a whopping eight million naira just for transport alone,(excluding feeding/hotel accomodation and training allowance)even when there is an alternative and cheap means of doing it...Ecobank is a business organization run with shareholders money,for profit motive......they have to maxximise profit with sound biz skills,and not spending eight million naira when they could alternatively do so with 2 million naira...your hate for the bank has blind folded your reasoning...

Bokoharam:


Since I heard of this from a very reliable source, I have not stopped being concerned. I am not a staff member of Ecobank (Yet, even if I am, does it change the reality of the wickedness?). There is also no hate involved. I even think you may be part of the executive that traded lives for money. I believe if your own relative left by road, and you had to keep wake from 8am when they set out till 1.30am the following day, when they arrived at Lome, coupled with staff bus breakdown (without security) in this horrible Nigeria and its borders, you would appreciate and think better.

We are NOT talking about Trainees here. We are talking about MANAGERS!!! There is nothing like 'financial state.' If cost of N40,000 (N80,000 to and fro) is too much for a global bank like Ecobank to absorb on behalf of its top managers, because of "...their financial state...," then, there is no need for Ecobank to be in business in Nigeria. Again, for the bank to identify these Top 100 managers, goes to show that they appreciate what those people are doing.

Secondly, the Nigeria Group contibutes larger chunk of Ecobank's returns globally. So, your argument cannot prevail.

The issue is: why would you subject your best hands to that kind of physically, emotional and psychological torture? That cannot happen in a place like Egypt.

It is time we addressed certain things rightly in NIgeria because strangers capitalise on our docility to castrate and emasculate our citizens.

sanniemoe:

Ermm.. I love ur composition. U know what U saying and u said it perfectly well. ...Thumbs up

Reference: That is prudent management in action. That's how you join the top 100 club. Poster. What does an Ecobank manager do to fly first class. What. Nigerians and their entitlement mentality.

Bokoharam:
So sad that many people here did NOT read posts before they commented

1. I stated it clearly that the staff offered to pay for their flight ticket, possibly nothing more than N100k, but they were shut down;

2. If the reason is to test staff resilience, why did other contingents from other countries fly to Togo?

3. If you needed them to go by road, why not use a regular, tested and reliable commercial bus like ABC that shuttles that route?

4. Do not forget that these are their Top managers, making the whole billions that the oga at the top are squandering. It is unfair to subject them to this kind of treatment.

5. Somebody calculated about N8m to transport the Top managers, screaming it is way too much! And I want to educate that person that the least each of those Top Managers earn for the bank in a month as PBT (Profit Before Tax; PBT means after all operating etc expenses have been taken out) is N10m (PER MONTH ooo!) So, what are we talking about? That shows many hungry people here talking do not understand what happens in a bank.

6. People are not also considering the risk. One of the buses broke down within Lagos, and the staff left Lagos at about 2pm when another bus was arranged, causing them to arrive at Lome past 1am; I am surprised that people are sounding this way. For goodness’ sake, how would you feel if your relative was on the road to a ‘no-man’s land’ by 1am? That is terrible! What if robbers attacked them?

7. Do not also forget that the TOP MANAGEMENT of this bank, who are the ‘Baboon de chop’ fly to Togo every now and then. For people talking about prudence..bla.bla.bla, what is prudence? Is prudence not by example?
It is worrisome that people are commenting here based on poverty-mentality and jealousy for bank workers.

Bokoharam:

2. If the reason is to test staff resilience, why did other contingents from other countries fly to Togo?

6. People are not also considering the risk. One of the buses broke down within Lagos,