Thank God for social media. Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan is shocked by reports of pregnant Nigerian worker losing baby after being beaten up by her Lebanese employers. The President has therefore ordered the Law enforcement agencies including the Police, Ministers-Interior, Labour, Women Health and the Nigerian Human Rights Commission, NHRC, to investigate the matter and recommend appropriate sanctions and remedial action.
Workers in a Lagos based packaging and printing company, Toppan Packaging Company Limited located on Ladipo Oluwole in Ikeja Industrial Estate could not believe what they witnessed on Friday the 13th December 2013.
The shift manager, a Lebanese; Kaveh Noine beat up the Cleaning Unit Supervisor Mrs. Alice Ossai in their presence, due to what he deemed negligence on her part, his grouse, a portion of the factory is littered with dirt and she failed in her responsibility to rein in her team to keep the factory floor spick and span.
Pregnant Ossai was helped home by some of her co-workers and her siblings that day; she resumed work the next day a Saturday 14th December even as the pain continued intermittently, even in pains and being pregnant, she carried out her supervisory cleaning assignments in order to save the family income. Read the rest of the story here
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