No fewer than 12 labourers working for Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN), Sub-Contractor, Animachris Nigeria Enterprise has dragged the company to traditional court over an alleged indebtedness of the sum N1 million as salaries.
Mr Kufre Asuquo, spokesperson for the workers laid their complained to newsmen in Eket during the weekend, saying that the 12 labourers would explore every available lawful medium to extract their salaries from the Mobil sub-contractor.
Asuquo said that the Managing Director of the Enterprises, Mr Edoho Edoho had melted injustice on them for not paying them after hiring them to work for him.
According to him, laboureres are drawn from Esit Eket and Eket Local Government Areas to cut grass using machetes and cutlasses at Qua Iboe Terminal tank farm, in Ibeno for a remuneration of N30, 000 monthly.
He said that Mr Edoho “deliberately refused’’ to pay them their three months salaries effect from Nov. 2013 to Jan 2014.
“We are 12 laboureres who worked for him, but he goes around boasting that this set of labourers are not the first employees of his firm that he has denied salaries,’’ Asuquo said.
Reacting, Edoho told newsmen that he has noted the inquiry and said that the case was in court.
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