Billionaire businessman and Energy Group Managing
Director, Jimoh Ibrahim, was on Monday, Jan. 18,
embarrassed on live TV in Abuja as his protesting
unpaid workers stormed the set.
The workers invaded the venue while Ibrahim was
delivering a lecture which was being aired on live on
Africa Independent Television (AIT).
Report said the angry workers, who were with a
megaphone, chanted
The aggrieved employees, one of them with
megaphone, chanted “all we are saying, pay us our
salaries”.
Ibrahim was said to have told the employees that he
has noted their grievances and pleaded with them
leave the hall, but his appeal did not move the
protesters.
When his plea failed to change the situation, one of
the senior managers of the company, who was part of
the lecture, stoop up to appease the workers to leave
the venue - the move which also failed.
They were eventually dispersed by some policemen,
who politely led them out of the hall.
Speaking after the protesters left, Ibrahim said the
workers did not generate income for the company and
they do not expected him to borrow money to pay
them.
“We cannot borrow money to pay salaries", he said.
He however threatened to shut down, in December
2016, any of his companies that does not generate
income to pay salaries.
However another source revealed that addressing the
issue, Mr Ibrahim said he has 16 companies and only
one of those companies has staff protesting lack of
unpaid salaries and blamed it on the top management
of the company. He said he would pay the salaries of
the workers of National Mirror for five months on the
condition that the MD and DMD will resign immediately
after the conference.