BUSTED: How Chinese Firms Allegedly Maltreats, Inflicts Injuries On Nigerian Workers In Ogun

The firms are; Italy Ceramics Company Limited and CCETC Suk Power Company Limited.

This was according to a petition by the member representing Ikenne State Constituency, Kunle Sobukanla, during plenary at the Assembly Complex, Oke-Mosan on Thursday, July 8.

Sobukanla in his petition said, the Chinese-owned companies which were into the production of ceramics and electricity generation with hundreds of employees as supporting staff, had inflicted injuries on some of their workers.

The petition partly read;

"The company did not consider it necessary to provide medical attention for the injured employees, neither did they show any remorse for the injury inflicted on the workers. It is important to mention that it is not good enough for foreigners to be accommodated in Ogun State and Nigeria at large and such investors will not be able to reciprocate the kind gesture extended to them but instead, maltreating their host and employees inhumanly."

Reacting, the Speaker of the Assembly, Rt. Hon. Olakunle Oluomo summoned the representatives of the two companies to appear before the Assembly's Committee on Industry, Trade and Investments on Monday, July, 12, at the Assembly Complex by 10 am.

The summoning is "to explain the rationale behind the alleged inhumane treatments being meted out to their employees, resulting in physical assaults and injuries on the workers."

Oluomo noted that 'though the State was committed to attracting investors, it cannot afford to harbour such investors that would maltreat the people of the State under any guise'.