In April 2015, Dangote Cement announced through electronic media a Truck Entrepreneurship Scheme that looks to enable graduates monetarily. The plan involved possible ownership for any representative (Truck Officer) who could cover 400,000km with the truck.
Representatives enthusiastically connected for this offer with the required means of application and were in the long run shortlisted.
From that point, they experienced the principal preparation process that kept going from June to October 2015 at Obajana (Kogi State), Ibese (Ogun State), and Ikeja (Lagos State).
From that point, there was physical affirmation of representatives homes and that of their guarantors by Background Check International (BCI), an organization in Lagos, whose staff went to the reps’ homes and that of guarantors from November 2015 to January 2016.
On February 2016, 200 reps got phone calls summons to Obajana plant for prompt commencement of duty. The off the cuff way with which reps paid attention to this call from this “legitimate” organization cost the majority of them their current
occupations at that time. However in the wake of preparing, they were made a request to wait and sit tight for their call.
In March 2016, an understanding structure covering the plan was sent to reps by means of email to finish and send to the High Court for lawful support. This they did accordingly.
Reportedly,it is important that the assertion gave a month to month compensation of N60,000 for each Truck Officer including an execution reward of N90,000 on meeting the month to month target.
In April 2016, the reps got a call to go to Ibese plant to handle their reports and begin work. This they did, and after that were approached to wait and sit tight for their call.
In May 2016, they got a call requesting that Truck Drivers answer to Ibese plant for quick initiation of duty, some on twelfth and
some on thirteenth. At this time, they were assigned one truck each to direct. Later on, the trucks they each dealt with expanded to four, then to six for those in Ibese and seven for those in Obajana.
On second June 2016, the administration summoned the reps to a meeting for the cancellation of the business enterprise. They issued them appointment letter saying the reps were consequently staff of the organization. In any case, the letter expressed that appointment would be affirmed lasting after six months.
It additionally stipulated a month to month merged compensation of N60,000 and unspecified execution reward.
On that same month (June 2016), another 200 Truck Officers were added to the reps number and were conveyed to Obajana plant. They too were given the same treatment the first batch were given.
In September 2016, around 400 Truck Officers were further engaged. 200 were sent to Obajana plant while 200 were sent to Ibese plant.
In December 2016, rather than issuing the main clump of Truck Officers affirmation letters, the administration presented a new type of every day truck detailing, saying it was intended to be utilized as Key Performance Indicator (KPI). In spite of the fact that the truck drivers were horribly frustrated, they loyally adjusted in accordance with this new arrangement which formally initiated in Ibese plant In January 2017.
On Sunday eighth January 2017, a Truck Officer, OYELAMI ADEKUNLE ISMAEL, slumped and passed on during duty in Ibese plant, and all the administration did was to ask some Truck Officers to go with the body with an ambulance to his main residence with an insignificant total of fifty thousand naira.
All efforts on the part of the truck drivers to book an appointment for meeting with management proved abortive. All efforts were fruitless as they got no reaction.
Additionally, deserving of note is that the truck drivers’ ambitious activities prompted to the restoration of more than five hundred non-operational trucks to end up distinctly operational.
On Saturday fourth January 2017, they were all of a sudden summoned by administration by means of WhatsApp a web-based social networking to answer to the plant for a critical meeting.
Incredibly, military men were positioned at key positions around the plant. It was then that they began appropriating Termination Letters imprinted on standard A4 papers as against the organization’s official letter-headed papers, to truck drivers requesting that they present their ID cards and other organization possessions, while they said nothing about truck drivers severance dues or allowances if any .
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