The rich get richer while the poor get poorer
typifies the secret life of Nigerian billionaire,
Aliko Dangote, as one of his ponzi scheme has
just crashed, Secret Reporters has exclusively
gathered.
It was massively advertised as Dangote Truck
Entrepreneurial Scheme in virtually all the media
outlets both in the conventional and new media.
It was designed in such a way that qualified
graduates will be empowered to manage trucks
assigned to them and eventually become
owners after the trucks must have attained a
defined mileage. So many young graduates
excitedly keyed into the initiative with accolades
being showered on the drafters of the scheme.
It was described as a panacea to youth
unemployment and was hailed by all from all
quarters. Dangote was cruising as the king of
unemployed graduates that the Federal and
State Government could not employ.
After the buzz and eulogies from the
government and the public had died down, the
goal post was shifted by Dangote Group. The
recruited graduates were told that it’s no longer
and entrepreneurial scheme. They were cajoled
to believe that they have been offered
provisional offer of employment in one of the
most ‘respected brand’ in the country, Dangote
Cement Transport.
With confirmation promised after 6months, they
were made to leave their lucrative jobs to join a
household brand. They were given employment
letter but it looked so vague and empty. It was
bereft of the usual details that accompany any
offer of employment letter. Out of mixed
feelings, some graduates accepted the offer and
some rejected it. Most accepted it because they
saw it as an avenue to work in a brand that
has house hold name with great potentials.
They were termed as Truck Officers with the
mandate of overseeing trucks assigned to them
and superintending over the truck drivers.
Sadly, their hopes and dream in identifying with
this brand has been dashed and short lived. The
events that have played out thus far in 8
months seemed like a calculated and well
orchestrated deceit with a timeline. The drafters
of the scheme played it out methodologically
with a defined template. Meanwhile, a reliable
source revealed that Dangote went to collect
loan from World Bank to fund the Obajana
Cement factory and one of the conditions given
to him was to employ Nigerian graduates,
which he agreed to.
For the past 8months that Truck Officers have
worked at Dangote Cement Transport, Dangote
paid only N57,5000 as monthly salary, instead
of the N150,000 they were promised during the
recruitment section.
According to one of the affected staff, who left
a Bank Job just to be with Dangote, “This is
the height of corporate fraud and enslavement.
No medical benefit paid, no overtime allowance
paid, no special duty allowance paid, no leave
grant paid, no defined bonus paid, no form of
welfare package paid, no confirmation letter as
promised. Truck Officers were left at the mercy
of just a misery 58,000 naira stipend paid
monthly. Yet, we looked beyond the monthly
take home to discharge their duties to the best
of our abilities without any inhibitions”
A truck loads about 45 tonnes of cement worth
over 2million Naira per trip and a Truck Officer
is expected to monitor the loading, dispatch
and delivery of the consignment to its final
destination and it’s return to base with the
assistance of the Truck Driver. In spite of this
round the chain effort, no Truck Officer has
made close to half of that amount from the
company for the tireless efforts put in daily both
weekends and public holiday to maintain the
trucks for this past 8 months. This is regardless
of the hazardous and unpleasant working
condition Truck Officers are daily exposed to
with nearly non existing working tools.
Within the 8months period under review, Truck
Officers were responsible for the resuscitation of
over 100 moribund and non operational trucks
which are up and running today. So many
Dangote trucks involved in accidents or broken
down on the high way and littered across
different parts of the country thereby causing
nuisance on the road were brought back to
Obajana through the major efforts of Truck
Officers. This feats were mainly achieved under
very strenuous conditions and risk with no
special incentive paid.
In a swift, they were relieved of their
appointments after passing the 6 months
probation period, which qualifies them for
automatic confirmation.
Lamenting his dismissal, one of our sources
stated that “this is indeed a capitalist world
with heartless and conscienceless management
at the helms of affairs. The management style
has been so porous with no clear cut policy
direction. Truck Officers are daily bequeathed
with flip flop policies. Yet, they improvised and
applied ingenuity in getting the job done. More
so, the threat of dismissal and query even with
verbal insults from management at times
became a recurring trend in the course of the
work”

How we were humiliated, victimized by Dangote’s company – Truck officer revealed In April 2015, the company announced both in print and electronic media a Truck Entrepreneurship Scheme that sought to empower graduates financially. The scheme entails eventual ownership of a truck each by every successful employee (Truck Officer) who was able to cover 400,000km with the truck. We excitedly applied for this offer with the required documents, and were eventually shortlisted. Thereafter, we went through the first training process that lasted from June to October 2015 at Obajana (Kogi state), Ibese (Ogun state), and Ikeja (Lagos state). Thereafter, there was physical background confirmation of our residences and that of our guarantors by Background Check International (BCI), a company in Lagos, whose staff visited our homes and that of our guarantors from November 2015 and January 2016. On February 2016, 200 (two hundred) of us got phone calls to report to Obajana plant for immediate commencement of duty. The impromptu manner with which we heeded this call from this ‘reputable’ company cost most of us our current jobs then. Yet after training, we were asked to go back and wait for their call. In March 2016, an agreement form covering the scheme was sent to us via email to complete and send to the High Court for legal endorsement. This, we promptly did at our own cost. It is noteworthy that the agreement provided a monthly remuneration of N60, 000 for every Truck Officer including a performance bonus of N90, 000 on meeting the monthly target. In April 2016, we got a call to report to Ibese plant to process our documents and commence work. This we did, and after training, we were asked to go back and wait for their call. In May 2016, we got a call asking us to report to Ibese plant for immediate commencement of duty, some reported on 12th while some resumed on 13th and we were allocated one truck each to supervise. Later on, the trucks we each handled increased to four, then to six for those in Ibese and seven for those in Obajana. On 2nd June 2016, the management summoned us to a meeting to announce the cancellation of the entrepreneurship scheme. They issued us an appointment letter saying we were automatically staff of the company. However, the letter stated that our appointment would be confirmed permanent after six (6) months. It further stipulated a monthly consolidated salary of N60, 000 and unspecified performance bonus. On that same month (June 2016), another 200 (two hundred) Truck Officers were added to our number and were deployed to Obajana plant and the same appointment letters were issued to them. In September 2016, about 400 (four hundred) Truck Officers were further employed, 200 were deployed to Obajana plant while 200 were deployed to Ibese plant. In December 2016, instead of issuing the first batch of Truck Officers confirmation letters, our management introduced a new form of daily truck reporting, saying it was meant to be used as our Key Performance Indicator (KPI). Though grossly disappointed, we obediently adjusted to this new development which officially commenced in Ibese plant In January 2017. On Sunday 8th January 2017, a Truck Officer, Oyelami Adekunle Ismael, slumped and died on duty in Ibese plant, and all our management did was to ask some Truck Officers to accompany the corpse with an ambulance to his hometown with a paltry sum of N50,000 (fifty thousand naira). It is noteworthy to say that we made effort by sending mails twice to our management to book a meeting with us in order to discuss our issues but it all proved abortive as we got no response. Also worthy of note is that our enterprising actions led to the revival of more than 500 (five hundred) non- operational trucks to become operational. On Saturday 4th February 2017, we were suddenly summoned by our management via Whatsapp social media to report to the plant for a very important meeting. To our surprise, military men were stationed at strategic positions around the plant. It was then that they started distributing termination Letters (printed on ordinary A4 papers as against the company’s official letter- headed papers) to us, asking us to submit our identity cards and other company belongings, saying nothing about our severance dues and allowances if any. We hereby implore all well-meaning Nigerians and the general public to come to our aid so as to bring this draconian and tyrannical method of management to an end in this country, and thus save the Nigerian youth from undue humiliation and victimization.

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leofab:
Cool

cool how? cos u re Notting to say?

Lala plz do d needful. Tanx

You people have come here with half truths once more ..Where and when did the world bank advise Dangote to take Nigerian graduates as a prerequisite for granting him loans ..OP do you know that Obajana has been in existence for almost decade ?so was it last year the world Bank told him to get graduates?

I smell IPOB

No source?, I dont believe lies

Horus:
No source?, I dont believe lies

http://secretsreporter.com/ponzi-billionaire-fraudster-dangote-duped-graduates-millions-scam-job-using-collateral-world-bank-loan/


How we were humiliated, victimised by Dangote’s company – Truck officer revealed https://www.naij.com/1087487-how-humiliated-victimized-by-dangotes-company-truck-officer-revealed.html

SalamRushdie:
You people have come here with half truths once more ..Where and when did the world bank advise Dangote to take Nigerian graduates as a prerequisite for granting him loans ..OP do you know that Obajana has been in existence for almost decade ?so was it last year the world Bank told him to get graduates?

How we were humiliated, victimised by Dangote’s company – Truck officer revealed https://www.naij.com/1087487-how-humiliated-victimized-by-dangotes-company-truck-officer-revealed.html


http://secretsreporter.com/ponzi-billionaire-fraudster-dangote-duped-graduates-millions-scam-job-using-collateral-world-bank-loan/

Lalasticala am so dissapointed. SMH

Dangote has been a scammer from time imemorial.

He is one of the problems we have in nigeria.
Gives with right hand, takes with left hand

Ahmadgani:
Dangote has been a scammer from time imemorial.


He is one of the problems we have in nigeria.

Gives with right hand, takes with left hand

and lalasticala was so bad Dat he can't take dis to fp, always taking some unnecessary news to fp.

Seun should push this to the fp