6000 Nigerians will loose their Jobs MTN warns

                       

Management of MTN Nigeria issue a warning yesterday that 6000 Nigerians will loose their job should their facilities be attacked, they will be force the shut down operations,as demonstrations took place yesterday in Abuja and in Benin where protesters attacked the Office of MTN in response to the xenophobic attacks on Nigerian and Foreigners in South Africa.

The company said the call for a boycott of its services is unjustifiable, because such a step will affect chain of over 500,000 Nigerian jobs compare to the just 12 expatriate,working for the company.


The cooperate service Executive MTN Nigeria Mr Wale Goodluck said : “So, if people go ahead with their threats to attack our facilities, what that means is that we may be forced to close down the business in Nigeria and about 6,000 Nigerians that make up 99 per cent of our workforce will be unemployed.

“Then, when you look at our support chain, we have about 500,000 Nigerians gainfully employed. So, boycotting our services simply means destroying so many other Nigerian businesses and making over 500,000 other Nigerians to lose their jobs.

“This business supports a lot of businesses across the length and breadth of Nigeria. Many of the businesses that are affiliated to South Africa are in the retail space, supporting the growth of Nigeria and employing so many Nigerians.”

He also said the company had spent in excess of $15bn on capital expenditure growing the telecommunications business in Nigeria.

“We see no revenge of Xenophobia and we commend the role the Nigerian High Commissioner in South Africa has played; at least there has been no fatality on the part of any Nigerian,” Goodluck added.