NLC invaded MTN offices Nationwide Over Anti Labour Practices

ons Executive, MTN Nigeria, Tobechukwu Okigbo, stated: "The present (yesterday) savagery and the unnecessary devastation of property is profoundly disheartening. As usual, our essential concern is the security and prosperity of our workers some of who were assaulted by gathered NLC agents and have maintained wounds."


In Lagos, the picketing, which began as right on time as 5.00 a.m. at the head office of firm situated at Falomo, kept specialists from getting entrance into the working as the work blocked access to the passage, while the individuals who worked medium-term were bolted up in light of the fact that they attempted to keep work authorities from obtaining entrance into the compound.

The NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, depicted MTN as the most exceedingly terrible manager, saying the firm has damaged all work laws in the country.Wabba, who expressed that the telecoms firm has very nearly 100 for each penny of its workforce as easygoing specialists, said the firm had declined the privilege of laborers to opportunity of affiliation and flexibility of laborers to altogether deal their state of administration as revered in International Labor Organization (ILO) tradition. Okigbo denied these cases, saying: "The broadcast communications firm does not keep its representatives from partner among themselves as they esteem fit and owe them the commitment to guarantee they are not constrained to join associations.He said MTN bolsters the opportunity of relationship as cherished in the Nigerian constitution.

At the Enugu territorial office of the portable media communications supplier, the association individuals, drove by the state executive of the NLC, Mr. Virginus Nwobodo, who touched base at the Zik Avenue office of the firm as right on time as 7.30 a.m. with notices with the engravings "South Africans are not superior to Nigerians", "MTN, mind yourself," "MTN, our mumu wear do", "MTN, why are you treating Nigerians like slaves", "MTN regularize specialists' arrangements", among others, said the activity would last till tomorrow.

Nwobodo said the organization was not intrigued by specialists' welfare and had kept on oppressing and pay peanuts to laborers regardless of the colossal cash they are making.He said the administration of the organization had declined the specialists to join work developments.

Likewise, in Kano head office of the firm, the association individuals, drove by the state Chairman of the NLC, Kabiru Ado Mingibri, raged the Post Office street of the organization as right on time as 7.30 a.m. forestalling human and vehicular development.

Mingibri, who talked with columnists, said the picketing was coordinated by national base camp of NLC against what he depicted as abuse of MTN individuals from staff.

In the interim, the Senior Manager, MTN Nigeria, Kano Office, Abdulhamid Hassan, said administration of the MTN is now tending to the antagonistic issues.