By Emmanuel Udom
In a move aim
at downsizing operations, South African telecommunication
giant, MTN yesterday sacked about 2000 employees of Visafone.
The company,
coming out from the burden of paying $5.2 billion as fine to Nigerian
Nigerian
Communications Commission, took the decision as the
first step towards acquiring Visafone.
Some aggrieved workers at Visafone offices in Ikeja, Maryland and Ogba areas of Lagos said that they were paid
three months salaries, January 5 and asked to go home.
Media reports
have it that only employees left were
those in the personnel and transmission departments. A sacked worker who talked
to newsmen lamented thus;
“We learnt that
the management would downsize, but we were told that that would be later in 2016. It is, however,
surprising that they are sending majority of us away so early in the year.
Though they paid three months’ severance benefits, but should it be this way?”
“Some of us
have put in five to 10
years of our lives in keeping the business going, but see what we are getting
now. It is well.”
According to the reports,
the economic challenges facing
Nigeria, added with the humongous $5.2 Billion fine imposed by the NCC and FGN
had frustrated plans by the MTN to absorb at least 50 per cent of the sacked Visafone workers.
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