MTN Nigeria yesterday said it has provided financial support to the transit camps where victims of xenophobic attacks in South Africa are being resettled.
It said the attacks were needless.
Its Corporate Services Executive, Akinwale Goodluck, who spoke with reporters at the company’s head office, Falomo, Ikoyi, Lagos, said the carrier condemned the attacks, saying they lacked justifications in the modern age.
He said though the attacks were limited to certain parts of the country, they were nonetheless symptomatic of poverty, illiteracy, stressing that MTN was concerned not because of its business but largely because of the fatalities that had occasioned the lawlessness.
Goodluck, who spoke against the backdrop of inciting postings on social media platform urging reprisal attacks, said there was no basis for such a call, arguing that MTN Nigeria is a Nigerian business with about 98 per cent of its workforce being Nigerians beginning from its Chief Executive Officer, Michael Ipkoki.
According to him, only about 12 expatriate workers draw their pay cheques from MTN Nigeria while over 6,000 Nigerians are employed as permanent workers while about one million others support the value chain, eking out their living form the telco.
Goodluck said the carrier, which supports businesses such as the financial institutions, has invested $15 billion over the past one decade to build infrastructure and expended another N10 billion on its corporate social responsibility (CSR) through the MTN Foundation that has supported providing health services to complement government’s efforts.
In terms of support to the economy, the telco which has over 60 million subscribers said it is the second largest tax payer to the Federal Government only next to the multinational oil companies.
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Ugochukwu Isaac
Because of that nah, south Africans can continue to intimidate and harrase Nigerians living and working in south Africa! Mtn may consider moving back to south Africa ooh
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Paul Jude Onuche
Most Nigerians are myopic! Yes, another company will come up with jobs, but how long will it takes that company to stand strong? Any body that ever think of sending MTN packing is an agent of destruction to Nigerian economy. Anything that will make unemployment rate to increase will cast disaster to the already struggling to survive economy. The better way of resolving this issue is through diplomatic means. It is when all road leading to diplomacy fails that, harsh decisions. For now, anybody that touches MTN properties in any part of Nigeria will be regarded as an act of vandalism. I want to believe that those calling for South African companies in Nigeria to leave are those who are not employed like the crazy South African youths who are lazy and full of crime (not all of them). I am not trying to insult the sensibiliy of any person, but I am speaking an heaven truth. I am not working MTN neither am I working with any of the South African own company. What I am saying is that, we need to be very care in taking decision. Because at this particular time of mammoth unemploy, any alteration to the already existing employ will make the system to collapse.
It said the attacks were needless.
Its Corporate Services Executive, Akinwale Goodluck, who spoke with reporters at the company’s head office, Falomo, Ikoyi, Lagos, said the carrier condemned the attacks, saying they lacked justifications in the modern age.
He said though the attacks were limited to certain parts of the country, they were nonetheless symptomatic of poverty, illiteracy, stressing that MTN was concerned not because of its business but largely because of the fatalities that had occasioned the lawlessness.
Goodluck, who spoke against the backdrop of inciting postings on social media platform urging reprisal attacks, said there was no basis for such a call, arguing that MTN Nigeria is a Nigerian business with about 98 per cent of its workforce being Nigerians beginning from its Chief Executive Officer, Michael Ipkoki.
According to him, only about 12 expatriate workers draw their pay cheques from MTN Nigeria while over 6,000 Nigerians are employed as permanent workers while about one million others support the value chain, eking out their living form the telco.
Goodluck said the carrier, which supports businesses such as the financial institutions, has invested $15 billion over the past one decade to build infrastructure and expended another N10 billion on its corporate social responsibility (CSR) through the MTN Foundation that has supported providing health services to complement government’s efforts.
In terms of support to the economy, the telco which has over 60 million subscribers said it is the second largest tax payer to the Federal Government only next to the multinational oil companies.
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Because of that nah, south Africans can continue to intimidate and harrase Nigerians living and working in south Africa! Mtn may consider moving back to south Africa ooh
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Paul Jude Onuche
Most Nigerians are myopic! Yes, another company will come up with jobs, but how long will it takes that company to stand strong? Any body that ever think of sending MTN packing is an agent of destruction to Nigerian economy. Anything that will make unemployment rate to increase will cast disaster to the already struggling to survive economy. The better way of resolving this issue is through diplomatic means. It is when all road leading to diplomacy fails that, harsh decisions. For now, anybody that touches MTN properties in any part of Nigeria will be regarded as an act of vandalism. I want to believe that those calling for South African companies in Nigeria to leave are those who are not employed like the crazy South African youths who are lazy and full of crime (not all of them). I am not trying to insult the sensibiliy of any person, but I am speaking an heaven truth. I am not working MTN neither am I working with any of the South African own company. What I am saying is that, we need to be very care in taking decision. Because at this particular time of mammoth unemploy, any alteration to the already existing employ will make the system to collapse.
