The Osubi/ Warri airport which is managed by Shoreline Oil Services has sacked 80 percent of it's workers. The company attributed the retrenchment to the covid 19 pandemic. The retrenchment came as a surprise to the workers as they were not pre informed by the company of their sinister action to enable the prepare. Majority of the workers who have spent over 21, 15, 10, 7 years serving said they were suddenly laid off by Shoreline without compensation, payoff or gratuity. The workers alleged that they were paid only #35,000 ( thirty five thousand naira) in leu of notice as their take home package after many years of meritorious service.
One of the workers who pleaded anonimity said the company failed to honour the initial terms and conditions stated in their contact paper. It was gathered from a reliable source that the federal government had earlier given Shoreline an executive order to quit the airport as a result of it's gross incompetence and Hugh debt profile incurred by the company.
The retrenched workers alleged that during the previous months of the covid 19, workers were paid 50 percent and later, 30 percent and later less that 10 percent of their monthly salary before the final retrenchment.
The airport is not totally closed like other airports during this covid 19 as the airport serves oil companies working offshore and the workers were working fully and this great injustice is meted out them.