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Article

17 Aug 2008

Author:
Chika Otuchikere, Leadership [Nigeria]

How Construction Firms Debase Workers [Nigeria]

[A] recent auto accident involving a Julius Berger truck conveying the company's workers to their site and an 18-seater commuter bus [in which several persons lost their lives] brought to the fore the undignified way Nigerian workers are treated by their employers..Most of the workers who spoke on the issue...decried the inhuman condition they are subjected to inside the trucks...The public relations officer of Julius Berger Plc, Mr. Clement Iloba...said the company had put modalities on ground to phase out the use of trucks. [Also refers to Arab Contractors, Setraco, Dantata, Sawao]