A young Nigerian Woman Omoghiboria Justina has unveiled the main reason why she was sacked by a South African packaging firm Nampak Bevcan Nigeria limited agbara Ogun state after an injustice which led to her was sacked.
According to information made available to Inside Sources, Omoghiboria’s could have been suspended but the sacking was orchestrated by her former plant manager, a Philipino identified as Rosendo Pelagio after assaulting her.
Sources disclosed that the Edo State born Omoghiboria who until June 22, 2017 was the company’s finish pallet inspector, was assaulted by Pelagio on May 6 over her inability to pick a phone call put to her by the Philipino.
Omoghiboria while narrating her ordeal said “I was on duty that day from 6am to 9pm. We had a problem called axial load failure which involved checking the strength of cans. I did my normal procedure, but needed to sign some papers as part of quality instructions. It was already 9pm which was my closing time that day but I could not just leave without inputting the records in a computer. That was what I was doing when he came and approached me angrily, demanding to know why I did not pick his missed calls. It was then I checked my phone and realized he had called three times. I think someone must have offended him previously because I did not know why he was so angry. I was simply recording of 17 pallets on the computer. I did the same thing because I did not want to miss anything.
I told him that as he knew, I could not pick calls. He asked why I was sitting down while others were working. He was very angry and I told him that I was working to time because all our operations were based on timeliness. He then tried to take my phone from me but because I was struggling with him, he hit me in the chest. I started to shout and told him to leave me alone. I struggled with him and he hit me again and said he would write to the management about my insubordination. I walked away and he ran after me and hit me again.
I called other workers to see what was happening. I was crying and asked what I did wrong. He said, ‘I am the manager here, I would make sure you are sacked.’ A colleague who intervened was shouting and telling him not to hit a woman like that. But he just told my direct boss to sack me, he asked him to call the police and the company security to throw me out but because I did nothing wrong, my direct supervisor did not do so.”
Omoghiboria further said “I went to work the following day. My blood pressure was sky high and they took me to the hospital to be admitted. I was admitted for two days. When I got back I was told to make a statement of what happened and a panel was set up to investigate the issue. Even at the panel, he was still threatening me. Eventually, they terminated my job.”
