Ifeanyi Ubah’s Workers Requesting Salary Payment Were Attacked By Thugs Leading To Serious Injuries 

Workers of Capital Oil and Gas Industries Ltd met on the morning of Saturday about 11am, at Sanya Truck Pack in Lagos to deliberate on their unpaid four years salaries and unpaid/unremitted pension of over 10 years.

Capital Oil and Gas Industries Ltd is owned by Senator Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah. But, minutes into the meeting, a prominent face known to some of the workers led armed thugs to disrupt it and attacked workers, leading to serious injuries.

One of those injured, Mr Akujobi Ozoemena Barnaby, had written a petition to the Lagos Zone 2 of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) to complain about the attack.

Two officials of the Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR), Comrade Chinedu Bosah and Comrade Rufus Olusesan, were part of the meeting and were also attacked.

Mr Uzoma Njoku and other workers who were brutally attacked by these armed thugs sustained different degrees of injuries and are currently undergoing treatment at the hospital.

The thugs stole phones belonging to some workers and seized their documents.
Some of the workers rushed to Festac Police Station to lodge complaint during the attack but policemen on duty declined to intervene.

It took the intervention of some military men attached to OP MESA to rescue the workers who were kidnapped and were beaten for over one hour by these thugs.

Some of the workers alleged that Ifeanyi Ubah and the management stopped paying salaries in 2016 and before then, salaries were paid in a staggered manner, leaving a backlog at every point in time.

“He also does not pay by payslip, he transfers money into workers’ bank accounts without itemising the breakdown of the salary/allowance components.

“The company has refused to document workers’ employment contract and refused to issue employment letters to most of the workers in violation of Section 7 of the Labour Act and stopped workers from joining the union”.

The workers had earlier approached Ifeanyi Ubah officially to enter into a negotiation.
He did not respond but only offered workers six months salaries.

The Campaign for Democratic and Workers’ Rights (CDWR) is demanding that Senator Ifeanyi Ubah should pay workers their four years salaries and over 10 years pension. 

CDWR calls on the Nigeria Police Force to investigate the attack on workers by thugs and bring the perpetrators to justice.