SLAVERY!!! Italian Boss Chain His Ghanaian Worker In Hot Sun For Not Working Well!!!!

An Italian workshop supervisor has provoked anger at a company in a Free Zone Enclave in the Western Region after chaining one of his subordinates to a container in the hot sun as punishment for failing to complete a task assigned him.

The alleged culprit, identified as Manilo Maggiorotto, did the unthinkable with the reason that whenever he assigned work to the victim, he abandoned his and found ways of helping others to do their work.

Therefore, the best way to prevent a recurrence was to chain him. Seething with anger, employees of the multinational logistics company, Gateway Logistics Limited, operating as a Free Zone Company, have appealed to the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations, the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection and the Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC) to ensure that justice was done the victim.


Alleged culprit

They described what Maggiorotto did as a re-enactment of the days of slavery – a dehumanising act which, they said, sent shivers down their spine. “He must be apprehended to face the laws of Ghana,” they said.

“This is a Free Zone Company. He is in Ghana as workshop supervisor, an expertise that could easily be procured in Ghana but they brought him here and he constantly looks down on us and treats us as if we are nothing,” they said.

When they were contacted the company, its management acknowledged the incident but declined to comment further as they were dealing with the issue.

How it happened

Describing the incident to the Daily Graphic, one of the workers said their supervisor, on the day of the incident, assigned two of the company’s workers to carry out a task and later reassigned one of them to a different task.

To work as a team, the victim, whose name was given as Ibrahim Sanou, decided to help another employee so they could finish on time.

The source said when the Italian supervisor entered the yard, he realised that Sanou was not doing what he had asked him to do.

“He, therefore, called him, verbally assaulted him and asked him to go and bring the chain from the container. When Sanou returned, Maggiorotto put it around Sanou’s neck and locked it with a huge padlock.



After that he dragged Sanou more than 100 metres to where he originally assigned him.” “The sad part is that he hooked the end of the chain to a container in the sun and went back to his air-conditioned office, ” the source said.

The source said after Sanou had finished the work, the Italian asked one of the workers to go and unlock the chain so that the victim would go and carry out other tasks.

Workers

According to the workers, morale was currently down in the company and the victim, once jovial and energetic, was constantly depressed.

The workers were seeking justice and urged management of the company to ensure Maggiorotto left the workshop for his own safety. That aside, he should apologise to the victim and appropriately compensate him.

When the Daily Graphic visited the company, the workers expressed the view that management was trying to influence the victim financially to say he was not interested in the case.

Dehumanising

At the office of the General Transport, Petroleum and Chemical Workers Union (GTPCWU) of the TUC, the Regional Industrial Relations Officer, Mr Hanson Richard, said the issue had been reported to the union.

“We are aware management is talking to the victim to withdraw the case, but this is a national issue and it is wrong to dehumanise a national to that extent,” he said. Mr. Richard said the union had explained the implications of any inducement to suppress the case and that the national union would take over the case.

“I will pursue the case to ensure that Sanou received justice after which they would demand the repatriation of Maggiorotto to serve as deterrent to others,” he said.

He said several meetings with the management of the company indicated that they were also taking up the issue and the GTPCWU would ensure the law was duly applied.

He recalled a recent case in Accra where a supervisor was reported to have slapped a worker with hot pizza and the locking of workers out without prior notice at various yards in Takoradi.

He urged expatriate workers to learn how to relate to their colleagues.

Company’s reaction

After several attempts to elicit the reaction of the company, the Managing Director, Mr William Moss, agreed to grant an interview March 23, 2016.

However, about 2:30 p.m, Mr Moss called to say he could no longer grant the interview without consulting the local union. He expressed wonder as to what interest the newspaper had in the matter and ended the call.

Memo to workers

However, the Daily Graphic later intercepted a March 21 memo from the Managing Director notifying the employees that Mr Maggiorotto had relinquished his post and returned to Italy with his wife. “I would like to thank Manlio for all his efforts over the past years in the face of considerable difficulties.

He brought new levels of engineering experience and competence to the maintenance function and it was through his dynamism that the workshop at Bokro was created,” it said, adding that “He will be greatly missed”.

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Posted: at 1-04-2016 07:29 AM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero

Africa is everyones dustbin. The europeans treat Africans with NO respect even in Africa.

And yet our politicians think it cool to steal from Africa and hide the ill gotten wealth in european banks hence depriving Africa of much needed tax.

The supervisor should have been CHARGED TO COURT IN GHANA, IMPRISONED and then DEPORTED.

But of course he was a COWARD and ran away back to Italy.

Posted: at 1-04-2016 07:52 AM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

slavery, right?
I just dey look this Manilo of a guy.

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Posted: at 1-04-2016 08:03 AM (8 years ago) | Upcoming

having aided the accused to escape, the managing director of the company should be made to face the consequences of the man actions because until justice is served the situation wil not change.

Posted: at 1-04-2016 08:26 AM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

I NO TRUST THIS POST!!

Posted: at 1-04-2016 09:24 AM (8 years ago) | Grande Master

GHANA CITIZENS... Na so dem dey, when dem see NAIJA men, dem dey like show their weak muscles, but OYINBO dey come their country and they treat the OYINBO's like gods.. In their minds, the whites are SUPERIOR. Reminds me of a particular incident which happened in 2010.

I got to an electronics shop as early as 8 a.m, cause they open at 8.30 am and I needed to get to school by 9, I came all the way & was waiting in the TAXI for the shop to open, other people were outside the shop too (Ghanaians) we were all waiting patiently. Then suddenly this white man arrived and immediately, the door was opened for him to go in.
Everyone was looking and they didn't even bother to question the shop owners why they had to attend to the white man, while we were waiting for the shop to open.

Trust me as NAIJA man, I got out of the TAXI in rage and demanded that the door be opened for me too just like they did for the white man, cause I had been waiting patiently for almost 20 minutes while the white man just arrived. The security guy wanted to talk down on me and I told him, ''HEY DUDE LOOK AT ME VERY WELL'' I am not a FOOL, I know my rights. As the matter was about escalating into something else, the managers attention was called and he came outside and begged me to calm down, so I explained myself to him and made him understand how I felt. He apologized and asked me to come in.

To my greatest surprise, the WHITE MAN had only come to window shop, he left the shop and went to another shop across without buying a PIN. And then I told the lady attending to me. ''YOU SEE YOU GHANAIANS, YOU APPRECIATE THE WHITE MAN MORE THAN YOUR OWN CITIZENS IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY, HENCE THE REASON WHY YOU'LL ALWAYS BE SLAVES TO THEM''

I was the VOICE for every other BLACK MAN out there that day, cause as soon as they let me in, they all followed and the shop hadn't even opened cause it was still some minutes to 8.30. When I got back into my TAXI, the TAXI GUY really commended my BRAVERY and said he wished his fellow GHANAIANS learnt anything from what I did.

Sorry for the long story...

Posted: at 1-04-2016 10:39 AM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

....heheh abi maybe na April fool ooo...

Posted: at 1-04-2016 11:06 AM (8 years ago) | Hero

Even the lebanese treat nigerians worse than this in nigeria,and nigerian government never take any action in all the case reported to them after being bribed to close such cases.

Posted: at 1-04-2016 12:15 PM (8 years ago) | Upcoming

Africa a place of dumb n disposal

Posted: at 1-04-2016 12:48 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

unfortunately it also occurs in 9ja more than we think


How Nigeria Police is jeopardising case of pregnant woman assaulted by Lebanese boss
December 29, 2013 Nicholas Ibekwe   




There are clear indications that police officers are working to undermine investigation into the case of Alexandra Ossai, the woman who was allegedly kicked in the stomach by her Lebanese manager, Kaveh Noine, causing her to lose her seven months old pregnancy.

When PREMIUM TIMES visited the Gracious Mercy Hospital in the Fagba area of Lagos, where she is currently receiving treatment, Saturday afternoon, plain cloth policemen were seen prompting the tired-looking and agonising woman to make statements, ignoring the concern from her lawyer that she is not in the right state of mind and too physically battered to talk.

Mrs. Ossai, 34, was a supervisor at a Lebanese owned printing firm, Toppan printing Company, where she earned a paltry N12,000 monthly salary.

On December 13, Mr. Noine allegedly assaulted her for not properly discarding a used carton. The alleged assault was so vicious that it was said to have broken her placenta and damaged the face of her seven months old foetus. She underwent an emergency surgery to remove the foetus.

The case attracted a lot of buzz on social media following speculations that the police, who were called to investigate the matter, ironically helped the accused to escape through the backdoor of the company. PREMIUM TIMES is unable to verify that allegation.

Muddling-up the investigation

PREMIUM TIMES observed that the police investigation seems uncoordinated with detectives from the Area F command and the Police X-squad working at cross-purposes. Mrs. Ossai’s relatives are suspicious that investigators from X-squad are trying very hard to exonerate Mr. Noine and his company, Toppan.

In fact, the original officer from Area F, simple identified as Jimi, has been detained for three days after officials of Toppan accused him of collecting bribe from Mrs. Ossai to portray the case in her favour.

He tearfully denied ever collecting money from Mrs Ossai.

“I did not know the complainant nor the suspect. All I did was to state the fact of the case. These people are just using their influence to punish me for saying the truth,” he was overheard telling a relative of Mrs Ossai in Yoruba.

The frail-looking Mrs Ossai, who is in need of better medical attention claimed she was ordered to report at the Glorious Mercy Hospital by the policemen to write a statement who ignored all her pleas of being too weak to do so. She also claimed that officers were prompting her on what to write in her statement.

“I don’t know if that was right but they were telling me what to write. They also ordered me to disclose my mother’s address but I refused to do so for my safety,” she said.

“She was in a lot of pain when giving her statement,” said Courage Erhuen, Mrs Ossai’s Lawyer.

“After writing a sentence she will stop for several minutes before continuing. This is a person that just came out of surgery two weeks ago. I told them (the police) not to force her to give the statement but they said they have to do their job,” he added.

Mrs Ossai has been staying at her mother’s after the emergency surgery.

Despite agreeing to treat her without asking for a deposit as commonly done by hospitals in the country, she feared the police might intimidate the doctor to issue a report that does not state the true details of the injuries she suffered.

Her fears may not be unfounded.

Two weeks after the emergency surgery, the hospital is yet to issue a medical report. Shehu Abdulkareem, the doctor of the  clinic said the medical report would be ready when the surgeon who conducted the emergency surgery returned from his trip before the end of the year.

“With what I’ve seen so far, I’m afraid that the investigation might be jeopardised. In this country you don’t trust the police. If care is not taken all the evidences might be swept under the carpet. It is glaring that the medical doctor is afraid to say something about the medical report, which is a key evidence for us to pursue this case,” Mr. Erhuen said.

But the Lagos police spokesperson, Ngozi Braid, denied the police was plotting to jeorpadize the case.

“The police will never leave any stone unturned in making sure that justice is achieved,” Ms. Braid said, in response to an enquiry by PREMIUM TIMES. “The Lebanese has been arrested since Friday and is still in police custody. Meanwhile, investigations are still ongoing.”

A hungry victim

Throughout the encounter with the police at the hospital, Mrs Ossai was in immense pain. She talks in whispers with a permanent grimace plastered on her face as she tried to endure the pangs of pains biting from the suture at her torso. At about 2.20 p.m., she complained of hunger stating she had not eaten all day.

She also appears to be in need of better medical attention as the Grace hospital is ill equipped to care for her. After waiting for more than an hour for her prescription all she got were some yellow paracetamol capsules.

“I have been buying my medicine myself since after the surgery,” she said. “I need help and nobody seems to care about me.”

Frustrated at the questioning from the investigating officer, she broke down after a while.

“I leave everything to God if the Police choose not to do the right thing. But as long as God lives, Kaveh’s offspring will end up in canals just like my son,” she said, sobbing.

Contradictory arrest history

The police claim Mr. Noine is now in their custody after speculations he fled the country.

But the details of Mr. Noine’s arrest is also shrouded in controversy. The Punch newspaper quoted the spokesperson of the Lagos Police command, Ngozi Braid, as saying Mr. Noine was arrested in Kano where he  fled to after the incident.

“In the course of our investigation, we discovered that Noine was still in the country; he had fled to Kano. Our men traced him to Kano, arrested him and have brought him back to Lagos,” she was quoted as saying.

But an investigating officer from the police’s  X-squad in Lagos told PREMIUM TIMES at the hospital on Saturday that Mr. Noine was not arrested in Kano. He said the suspect surrendered himself at the state police command in company of the company’s administration officer. The officer asked not to be named because he was not authorised to divulge that information.

Following outcry on social media, President Goodluck Jonathan ordered that the matter be properly investigated and asked top cabinet ministers to oversee the investigation.

President Jonathan was shocked by reports of a pregnant Nigerian worker losing her baby after being beaten up by her Lebanese employer,” the special adviser to the President on Media, Reuben Abati, said. “The President has ordered the police, ministers of Interior, Labour, Women Affairs, Health and the NHRC [Nigerian Human Rights Commission] to investigate for sanctions and remedial action.”

However, lawyers and relatives of Mrs. Ossai believe with the manner the investigation is being handled, Mrs. Ossai might not get justice for her alleged mistreatment.

A history of violence

People who know him say Mr. Noine, the alleged assailant is known for his anger management problems.

Mrs. Ossai allege he is infamous at the company for insulting and physically assaulting employees.

She said he is known for throwing scissors and other sharp objects subordinates.  According to her, he treats his Nigerian subordinates with utter disdain, slapping and kicking them at the slightest provocation.

She said this particular case wasn’t the first time he assaulted her. Some months ago, she recalled, she punched her in the chest for something so insignificant she couldn’t remember what it was.

Officials of Toppan could not be reached for comment as the company is said to have closed for the festive season.

Posted: at 1-04-2016 02:55 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac