Some embittered workers of the National Mirror and Newswatch Times on Monday 18th January, 2016, stormed the Nicon Luxury, Abuja, venue of the Global Fleet Group annual management conference as the group managing director and publisher of two newspapers, Jimoh Ibrahim, was delivering a lecture to top management staff of the company.
The workers lamented unpaid 9 months salary and decided it was best to storm the lecture venue at a point when Mr. Ibrahim was talking about the development strategy of China that has helped to keep her above other countries.
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Mr. Ibrahim appeared undisturbed and asked security operatives to take the protesting staff out of the venue and continued this way:
“These are staff of the National Mirror who cannot generate their own salary, and they expect the company to make money from the company to pay them. Is that practically okay? That is not possible. I have said it that any arm of the group that cannot generate money to pay its salary would be shut down.
“What we are telling our friends in the media department is that they must be sustainable.If you are not profitable, you cannot be sustainable. Profitability is a key issue in continuity. If you are in media and you cannot generate your own salary, where do you expect the payment of your salary to come from?” Mr. Ibrahim said.
“There is no democracy in corporations. Any corporation talks about democracy in corporation will fail. Democracy works in government. In government, the issue is service to the people. But, in corporation, it is about strategy, profits and survival. It does not matter how.
“Jimoh Ibrahim cannot be a nice man all his life. But, he needs to take a decision, no matter who is down,” he said.
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