Why The Workers At A Chinese Company Set It Ablaze

Reason has emerged why vehicles belonging to a Chinese Company, sited at the Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, were set ablaze.

The company in question operates in the Ogun Guangdong Free Trade Zone

The Eagle understands that the workers were protesting against the decision of the management to lock them within the premises.

Beyond that, they were expecting the management of the company to pay them off.

It was gathered that the decision to lock them up within the premises was part of measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 and to obey the two-week lockdown extension of the government,

It appeared however that the deicision did not go down well with the workers as proven by a video circulating online where they were saying: “No more, management. This management should have sorted this since yesterday, pay us at least two months’ salary”.

Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, while clarifiying the situation said : “It happened two to three days ago. The Chinese company locked its casual workers inside the company since the beginning of the lockdown.

“The workers were now clamouring that they wanted to go home, demanding that the management pay them off.  That was what actually sparked off the protest.”

“They set ablaze the company’s vehicle but not completely burnt. They also destroyed the windscreens of two vehicles.

“The police have intervened in the matter and the management of  the Chinese company has paid them off, the workers have all gone to their houses.”