Workers Shut Down Oceanic Bank Head Quarters In Lagos

Date: 17-02-2012 3:32 pm (12 years ago) | Author: Daniel Bosai
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Activities at Oceanic Bank Headquarters and all its branches in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria were paralysed Friday following the decision of the new owner of the bank, Ecobank to pay the disengaged staff paltry sum of money as severance package.
 
The headquarters of Oceanic Bank on Ozumba Mbadiwe Street, Victoria Island, was shut following protest by disengaged staff rejecting the severance money offered them by the bank.

P.M.NEWS gathered that hundreds of staff of the former Oceanic Bank, which were recruited by Oceanic Security have been laid off.

Policemen took over the gate of the Oceanic Bank Headquarters as staff protested the proposed poor severance package Ecobank intends to pay them.

It was gathered that the bank wanted to pay the disengaged staff N40, 000 per annum across board to disengaged staff recruited by Oceanic Security, a subsidiary of Oceanic Bank.

What this means is that workers who have spent eight years working for the former Oceanic Bank will take home a paltry N320, 000 for all the years spent working for the bank.

The workers said they would only agree to be disengaged if adequate package was paid them, while rejecting what they called peanut offered by the bank to them.

Also, as at this morning, almost all Oceanic Bank branches were shut to workers and customers as customers could not withdraw or deposit any money as a result of the crisis rocking the bank.

The Oceanic Bank branches at Secretariat, Alausa; Amuwo-Odofin and others were shut, while security officers turned customers back.

A staff of the bank, who craved anonymity, said activities had been completely paralysed in all branches of the bank, including the headquarters taken over by policemen.

He said the management of the new bank offered to pay the workers a paltry amount of money as severance allowance, saying that it was completely unacceptable.

According to him, Oceanic Bank had about 300 branches and that staff recruited by Oceanic Security in most of the branches had been laid off, while the new owner had brought in its own staff to occupy the positions of the disengaged workers.

“Right now, in all the branches, things have collapsed. There is no network in all the branches right now and work is not going on,” he said.

Another staff of the bank, who also craved anonymity, told P.M.NEWS that the severance package proposed by the new owner of the bank was too small, saying that those laid off could be in thousands.

When contacted, the Corporate Affairs Manager of Ecobank, Michael Joseph said he could not speak for the Managing Director, saying that the bank would soon issue a press statement on the matter.

There are fears that more workers will lose their jobs in the wake of banking reforms and mergers.


Posted: at 17-02-2012 03:32 PM (12 years ago) | Addicted Hero
- silviabells at 17-02-2012 03:39 PM (12 years ago)
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no comment
Posted: at 17-02-2012 03:39 PM (12 years ago) | Upcoming
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- rayOFsunshine at 17-02-2012 03:44 PM (12 years ago)
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Na wa oo
Posted: at 17-02-2012 03:44 PM (12 years ago) | Upcoming
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- verah at 17-02-2012 04:02 PM (12 years ago)
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datz tru......i witnessed it.......... i was shocked when i got dere but wat can one do

Posted: at 17-02-2012 04:02 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Diamond4u at 17-02-2012 04:25 PM (12 years ago)
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g
Posted: at 17-02-2012 04:25 PM (12 years ago) | Upcoming
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- denmal at 17-02-2012 04:58 PM (12 years ago)
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bad policies destroying the nation
Posted: at 17-02-2012 04:58 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- EMMYBOSS at 17-02-2012 05:01 PM (12 years ago)
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WHAT CAN N3,333/ MONTH DO FOR SOMEONE WHO HAVE PUT UP TO 8 YRS IN AN ORGANISATION.  THEY SHOULD BE CONSIDERATE PLS.
Posted: at 17-02-2012 05:01 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- benemeka2 at 17-02-2012 05:32 PM (12 years ago)
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If this is true,really unfortunate.
Posted: at 17-02-2012 05:32 PM (12 years ago) | Newbie
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- Tomnwakor at 17-02-2012 05:58 PM (12 years ago)
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ok
here we go again
Posted: at 17-02-2012 05:58 PM (12 years ago) | Upcoming
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- Idbabe at 17-02-2012 06:03 PM (12 years ago)
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If dia union will not sell dem out, let dem hand ova 2 union
Posted: at 17-02-2012 06:03 PM (12 years ago) | Hero
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- interpo77 at 17-02-2012 06:13 PM (12 years ago)
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40 thousand naira is too poor for such vibrant banking entity to disengage workers, though what ever , they should move to court to address the issue instead of fighting and clossing work
Posted: at 17-02-2012 06:13 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Simon-Zeletus at 17-02-2012 06:15 PM (12 years ago)
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Criminal banks
Posted: at 17-02-2012 06:15 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- toibeli at 17-02-2012 07:22 PM (12 years ago)
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New owner, new policy.
Posted: at 17-02-2012 07:22 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Barshkid at 17-02-2012 07:27 PM (12 years ago)
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No comment!!!!
Posted: at 17-02-2012 07:27 PM (12 years ago) | Upcoming
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- ice2002 at 17-02-2012 08:00 PM (12 years ago)
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it is too bad
Posted: at 17-02-2012 08:00 PM (12 years ago) | Newbie
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- ice2002 at 17-02-2012 08:03 PM (12 years ago)
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then they pretend to promote and it was discovered they promoted 80% of their staff and 20%  of oceanic bank staff,that is what happens when a rat becomes the owner of an elephant.
I wonder what that man sanusi has to say about all this.BAD POLICIES.
Posted: at 17-02-2012 08:03 PM (12 years ago) | Newbie
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- sonjohn994 at 17-02-2012 08:18 PM (12 years ago)
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 i waka with full speed
Posted: at 17-02-2012 08:18 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- Senegal at 17-02-2012 08:34 PM (12 years ago)
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humm
Posted: at 17-02-2012 08:34 PM (12 years ago) | Hero
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- agbonson at 17-02-2012 08:36 PM (12 years ago)
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wht d new owner did is not fair at all... why nt allowed the old workers to stay and give dem new law instead of paying dem off
this is frustratn, i just hope this  bank is nt sold to d Islamic
Posted: at 17-02-2012 08:36 PM (12 years ago) | Upcoming
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- reallarry at 17-02-2012 09:06 PM (12 years ago)
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Quote from: agbonson on 17-02-2012 08:36 PM
wht d new owner did is not fair at all... why nt allowed the old workers to stay and give dem new law instead of paying dem off
this is frustratn, i just hope this  bank is nt sold to d Islamic

What a stuupid and parochial statement!!! What has islamic got to do with ECOBANK?

Please,always do ur research well b4 talking r.ubbish of a religion.
Posted: at 17-02-2012 09:06 PM (12 years ago) | Newbie
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