The current
economic situation in the country certainly affects everybody and everything,
even Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, is groaning.
Investigations at one of Dangote’s companies, Dansa Foods Nig.
Ltd off Lagos-Badagry expressway revealed that workers have not been paid their
salaries for the past six months.
The company which produces Dansa juice and other goods, it was
learnt, has laid off more than half of the workforce following dwindling sales
and high cost of production caused by high exchange rate of the naira.
The company, it was learnt, has suspended the production of
Dansa juice and other products. ”We are only producing Mowa bottle water now,”
a source at the company revealed.
But the workers are not taking it kindly with the management of
the company and have insisted that their six months unpaid salaries be paid to
them.
To this end, the workers have embarked on strike to press home
their demand.
One of the workers who did not want his name mentioned said he
and his colleagues decided to go on strike to force the management to pay their
salaries.
”We are being owed six months. The company has refused to pay us
so we are embarking on strike,” the worker added.
Efforts to speak with the management of the company proved
unsuccessful as one of the managers refused to pick his phone calls.
Bloomberg in its latest Billionaire Index reports revealed that
Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, lost $ 5.4 billion in his fortune this
year.
The loss was occasioned by the massive fall of the Naira as the
Central Bank of Nigeria rations the dollar to stem huge capital outflow in the
wake of Nigeria’s worst economic crisis.
Source: Pmnews
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