Company pays N2.4m to former guards after PUNCH report

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Succour has finally come to four ex-Jamasco Industries Limited security guards who were owed 29 months back pay after a report by Sunday PUNCH.

Ex-security guards – Kolawole Faniyi (75), Rasheed Ayankeye (82), Christopher Adeola (76) and Segun Adewale (70) – through their lawyer , Mr. Femi Aborisade, said the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, is a director at Jamasco Industries Limited.

But Ooni Palace spokesman Moses Olafare said the monarch handed the business over to new management long before he took the throne in 2016.

In the report entitled "Pay us 29 months of wages, septuagenarians, other beg Ooni", published in the PUNCH of Sunday July 3, 2022, the ex-security agents deplored that all efforts to get the company to pay them their back wages had failed.

Their lawyer explained that his clients filed a lawsuit in the National Labor Court in Ibadan, which resulted in a consent judgment in which the court ordered that the former agents of security are paid 600,000 naira each by the company.

Following the Sunday PUNCH report, Aborisade told our correspondent on Monday that his clients had finally been paid.

He said: "I am pleased to inform you that following the publication of our open letter to the Ooni of Ife by The PUNCH, the judgment debt of 600,000, 00 N due to the four elderly ex-security guards has just been deposited in our firm account for the benefit of elderly ex-security guards."

"Thank you very much. We always appreciate you.

"The PUNCH has done for us what hasn't been done since 2019 when the judgment was handed down. Truly, the pen is mightier than the gun."