Dangote Sacks Almost All The Graduate Drivers?

Information
reaching my
desk has confirmed that Dangote Group has quietly
issued termination letters to almost all the
graduate drivers that were recently employed
amidst much publicity.
One of the affected graduate drivers who pleaded
for anonymity, was actually crying when he
narrated their ordeal. 'We went through a training
program at NITT, Zaria for three months and were
issued with employment letters by the Dangote
Group in March 2013 at their head office in Lagos.
We were all deployed to Dangote Cement Plant,
Obajana ( Transport Division). At Obajana, the head
of transport, ALHAJI LADAN, directed that we all be
made to undergo an attachment with the more
experienced drivers just to enable us gather much
experience. We were all undergoing the
attachment when, sometimes in May 2013, a
directive came from the head office in Lagos,
directing that all the graduate drivers that wish to
leave driving should indicate interest to be
converted to Fleet Officers (which is an office work).
We all wrote to be converted to Fleet Officers and
that's when the drama started. Instead of doing the
conversion process once as was the case when we
got issued with employment letters in Lagos, the
cabal at Obajana dragged it slowly to enable them
to smuggle in many people who were never part of
the original set that received training in Zaria and
employment letters in Lagos. The conversion
started in June 2013 and ended in November 2013,
a period of six months for something that should
not have taken more than one week for a fair
minded and serious set of people.
At the end, only very few of the original graduate
drivers were converted to Fleet Officers while the
cabal in charge of the conversion exercise
succeeded in getting their people into the positions
meant for the graduate drivers. So, we were
waiting for the exercise to continue when on
December 02, 2013, the head of transport, ALHAJI
LADAN, directed that our salaries be stopped.
When we went to find out why our December
salaries were stopped, they told us to come back
today being January 06, 2014. So, you could
imagine our surprises when, on reaching there
today, they just came out and started issuing
termination letters to us.'
When asked how many graduate drivers were
converted to Fleet Officers, he replied that they
were about six. He further revealed that the
scheme was actually a ploy used by the company
to take a loan from a foreign agency and to boost
its image both at home and abroad, and that's why
the company is doing away with the graduate
drivers now that the deed has been done.
He further berated the set of people that heads the
transport sector at Obajana, who are all Northern
Hausa Muslims, for being overly incompetent and
corrupt.
He is still confused as he seems confused on what
to do next.

Sent From David Aniemeka