FINBANK STAFF PROTEST SACK

Staff of FinBank, on Wednesday morning, stormed the bank's headquarters at Akin Adesola Street, off Ahmadu Bello way, Lagos, to protest their sack without the payment of accrued benefits.

The sack followed the acquisition of FinBank by First City Monument Bank (FCMB).

The aggrieved workers, who were seen carrying placards with different inscriptions, said the bank is laying them off without paying them any benefits.

Some of the placards read: “Jane Ogbonna you have killed us, God will judge you”, “From all drivers, No settlement No work”, “Don’t discuss anything with Bede, Jane and others”, “We have wasted our youthful age for Finbank, pay us”, “We need justice”, “No one should be an island in his own country, We are all equal and should have equal rights”.

Some of the workers who spoke with DailyTimes revealed that they worked for years and were only expected to receive three months salary without any additional settlement. They also said the bank was sacking them verbally without issuing any sack letters.

One of the protesters who gave his name as Obinna, said: “ I have worked for this bank for five years now, how can they just tell us to go without any benefit? They only pay one-month salary, no allowance, no over time and they are saying we should go.”

Another affected staff, Stanley, who said he worked in the bank for 10 years, accused the management of fraud and pleaded with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to intervene in their situation.

“Pay our gratuity. We have discussed with the MD, they are deducting it from our salary but nothing in our account, they didn’t remit anything, even our tax money and they have been removing it from our salary. EFCC should come and arrest them. Our pension money, nothing, our tax money nothing,” he said.

“What people want is for them to pay us off, even if it is N300,000 each, we will go because we are even tired of the work, no increment of salary, no promotion.”-dailytimes