Ogun State House of Assembly has summoned the management of
Italy Ceramics Company Limited and CCETC Suk Power Company Limited over
allegations of workers’ maltreatment.
The Assembly said it had called on the firms “to explain the
rationale behind the alleged inhumane treatments being meted out to their
employees, resulting in physical assaults and injuries on the workers.”
A petition was submitted by a member representing Ikenne
State Constituency, Kunle Sobukanla, during plenary at the Assembly Complex,
Oke-Mosan on Thursday.
Sobukanla had informed the Assembly that the Chinese-owned companies which were into the production of ceramics and electricity generation with hundreds of employees as supporting staff, had inflicted injuries on some of their workers.
The petition partly reads, “the company did not consider it
necessary to provide medical attention for the injured employees, neither did
they show any remorse for the injury inflicted on the workers. It is important
to mention that it is not good enough for foreigners to be accommodated in Ogun
State and Nigeria at large and such investors will not be able to reciprocate
the kind gesture extended to them but instead, maltreating their host and
employees inhumanly.”
Responding, the Speaker of the Assembly, Rt. Hon. Olakunle
Oluomo issued a summon, with a directive to the representatives of the two
companies to appear before the Assembly’s Committee on Industry, Trade and
Investments on Monday, July, 12, at the Assembly Complex by 10 am.
Oluomo emphasized that though the State was committed to
attracting investors, it cannot afford to harbour such investors that would
maltreat the people of the State under any guise.
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