Energy
Group Chairman and billionaire businessman, Jimoh Ibrahim has sacked the
Managing Directors of his media companies over unpaid salaries of workers.
At
a public lecture on the Energy Group 5th GMD Conference, aired live on AIT on
Monday, unpaid journalists of Newswatch Newspapers, Newswatch Magazine and
National Mirror Newspapers had stormed the ongoing conference holding at NICON
Luxury Hotel, Abuja, demanding the payment of their 13 months’ unpaid salaries.
Displaying
placards, asking Ibrahim to clear the unpaid salaries, the journalists, under
the aegis of Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, sang protest songs and took over
the venue of the conference.
They
chanted solidarity songs, insisting that Ibrahim addresses the salary issue
before the conference could continue and Jimoh Ibrahim, who could not hide his
anger midway into the conference, continued to blast company heads who according
to him, could not generate their own money to pay salaries despite heavy
investment in the business.
The
first sects to get the axe were the MD of Newswatch, his Deputy who was sacked
on TV in a very dramatic fashion.
Visibly
under tension, the bosses of the newspapers in the conference knew there was
trouble. And trouble eventually came when Ibrahim, suddenly, verbally appointed
one the directors in the conference as new head of the Newswatch.
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