- Members of NUJ and RATTAWU in Adamawa state have debunked a media report about Gotel Communications Limited
- The unions denied a report suggesting that the company, owned by Atiku Abubakar, is owing members of the staff a month’s salary
- They also denied claims that the former vice president has a care-free attitude towards the company
Members of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) and the Radio, Television, Theatre and Arts Workers Union (RATTAWU) chapters of Gotel Communications Limited, Yola, Adamawa state have debunked a media report alleging that the company, owned by the Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, is owing members of the staff a month’s salary.
The unions also described as wicked, the claim in the report that the former vice president has a care-free attitude towards the company.
In a statement jointly signed by the chairmen, RATTAWU, NUJ, Mohammed Ahmed Mustapha and Muhammad Aliyu Mustapha, respectively, the union said the true position of events at Gotel Communication is that “those who were dis-engaged completely were paid their severance allowances.”
The union also said that those who resigned did so based on their personal interests of searching for greener pasture and were not disengaged as claimed by the online medium.
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Part of the statement read: “It is untrue that our members are in distress over non-payment of severance benefits. The dis-engagement and re-absorption exercise took place in 2016. Those dis-engaged completely, were paid their severance allowances.
“The re-absorbed members of staff were issued with dis-engagement letters and payment of the terminal benefits is ongoing, according to the understanding to implement the payment plan in phases.
“The statements credited to the chairman of the restructuring committee to the effect that, the management would not pay the re-absorbed workers their severance allowances is diametrically opposed to the reality on ground at GOTEL Communication as payment has since begun in phases.
“Those who resigned did so not because of the situation in Gotel, but in search for greener pasture, which is normal and obtains in every organization. Members of our unions are not being owed one month salary as speculated in the poorly investigated report. The organization is up-to-date in terms of salary payment.”
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Meanwhile, former deputy national publicity secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, has commended former President Olusegun Obasanjo for making peace with Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
Comrade Frank, who also defended the presence of some religious leaders at the peace meeting in Abeokuta, said all the leaders of note across the country, irrespective of political and religious affiliation, have now accepted the candidacy of Atiku Abubakar as a consensus president to be.
In a statement sent to journalists on Friday, October 12, the former APC spokesman said history will never forget those leaders who came together to rescue the nation from the current incompetent handlers.
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