Fair dismissal ? Dangote allegedly sacks 6,000 staff

&NewLine;<p>One of the companies owned by Africa’s richest man&comma; Aliko Dangote&comma; Dangote Cement Plc is said to have allegedly sacked not less than 3&comma;000 of its workers unjustly&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Our source revealed that one of the workers affected who until his dismissal was a senior officer&comma; said himself and former colleagues were sacked from both the Obajana &lpar;kogi state&rpar; and Ibese &lpar;Ogun state&rpar; stations on Monday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The former staff&comma; who spoke on the condition of anonymity said they were all called to pick-up their sack letters&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The source&comma; who said Dangote declared a profit of sixteen &lpar;16&rpar; Naira per share at his Annual General Meeting &lpar;AGM&rpar; earlier in the year&comma; added that none of the staff can trace a reason to the development&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Dangote just relieved about 3000 of us our jobs now&period; It’s very Pathetic here&period; I never imagined this&comma; I don’t even know what to do now&period; I’m short of ideas now&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>No one knows what even leads to that&comma; it was very sudden&comma; We heard it like a rumours over the weekends&comma; and it became a reality on Monday morning&comma; They started from the Ibese station&comma; no one can trace any reason to the mass sack&period; Because&nbsp&semi;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;thecitypulsenews&period;com&sol;a-l-e-r-t-risk-of-contracting-covid-19-now-higher-ptf&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener"><strong>Coronavirus<&sol;strong><&sol;a>&nbsp&semi;didn’t affect our sales at all&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Asked if the development may be as a result of a fall in sales&comma; he said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Loading&lpar;sale Operation&rpar; is on the high side&comma; that’s the mystery on over the case&period; Even the ogas &lpar;most senior officers&rpar; here can’t even say this is the cause&period; It was a matching order from the Headquarters &period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s beyond them&comma; Even our Human Resources officers and Director were just crying&comma; they didn’t understand at all&period; You can imagined&period; They said they will pay necessary entitlements&comma; ” he added&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;